Faruq Khourchid

Faruq Khourchid
Born	1928
20052005
🏳️ Nationality	Egyptian
🏫 Education	Graduated from Cairo University
💼 Occupation

Faruq Muhammed Saeed Khourchid (Arabic: فاروق خورشيد )

(March 28, 1928 – January 20, 2005), was born on March 28, 1928 in Cairo, and after graduating from the College of literature, Department of Arabic Language, Cairo University in 1950. He, Salah Abdel-Sabour and Abdel-Ghaffar Makkawi are the founders of the Egyptian Literary Society, which was the reason behind their fame in the literary community. Especially after they published Trustees Magazine. The majority of the association members were graduates of the College of Literature, Cairo University and Sheikh Ameen Al-Khouli students.

Biography

Khourchid switched between many jobs, starting with teaching, then working in the Egyptian Radio, developing from the broadcasters section to the chief broadcaster position.

He took over the management of the Middle East Radio, till before his death he worked for the Pyramids Evening Newspaper, affiliated to the Egyptian Pyramids Foundation.

Was a rapporteur of the Popular Arts Committee of the Supreme Council of Culture, and a professor of folk literature at the Higher Institute of Folk Arts at the Art Academy. He ran in the Writers Union elections nine years ago, along with the late Saad Eddin Wahba. These are the elections that worked to change the policy of the Union, after the resignation of its late president Tharwat Abaza.

Awards

Khuorchid won many state awards, the most important of which are:

• State Appreciation Award in Literature 1989.
• The Badge of Literature and Arts 1989.
• Republic Medal in 1964.
• The State Incentive Award for the novel in 1964.
• Al-Manya University Award for the best novelist in 1984.
• The shield of Sana'a University in 1985.
• The shield of theatrical friends group in Khartoum.
• The shield of the General Union of Arab Journalists 1996.
• The golden certificate for the best writer from the third Cairo Radio and Television Festival in 1997, and was also a candidate for the Mubarak Award during the past year.

Writings

Khuorchid's writing were distinguished by its diversity. He wrote in all kinds of writing arts, from a short story to a novel to a theater to an essay to travel literature, passing through to children's literature and radio writing.

However, his main contribution was in literature and Egyptian folklore, he was known for re-presenting popular biographies in a way that attracts the new generation to learn about the heritage of Arab storytelling, that is by rewriting a number of popular biographies, the most important of which are the biography of Saif bin Dhi Yazan, Ali Al-Zeibaq, and Princess That Al-Himma. These biographies were very popular when they were published, and Khuorchid represented them in radio drama series.

Stories and Novels

Stories

• Everyone is Void,1960. (original title: Al Kol Batel)
• The Pirate and the Dragon, collection. (original title: Al Quorsan wa Al Tenein)
• The Bloody Triangle, collection. (Al Mothalath Al Dami)
• All Rivers, collection (Kol Al Anhar)
• The Solace Flower (Zahrat Al Salawan)

Novels

He presented a large number of novels, distinguished by their extend from popular biographies, and derive from folklore their basic plot:

• A purely autobiographical novel is (Saif Bin Thi Yazan) in 1967, and it was reprinted several times after that. (original title: Saif bin Thi Yazan)
• The Adventures of Saif Bin Thi Yazan. (original title: Moghamarat Saif bin thi Yazan)
• Ali Al-Zeibaq.
• Five and Their Sixth. (original title: Khamsah oo Sadeshom)
• A bunch of men. (original title: Houfnah mn Al Rejal)
• Peace on Earth. (original title: Ala Arth Al Salam)
• Flower in Mecca (Al Zahra'a fee Maka)
• Dead Time. (original title: Al Zamman Al Mayet)
• Ali Al-Zeibaq's Tricks. (original title: Malaeeb Ali Al Zaeibaq)
• (It Runs to the Sea) and (The Sea Is Not Full) are in one book. (1st original title: Enaha Tajree Ela Al Baher) (2nd original title: Al Baher Lays Be Aman)

He presented a book that is considered one of the important books in his field, which is (The Arabic Novel and Age of Collection). He also presented number of books such as (Muhammad in Contemporary Literature), "The Art of Contemporary Arabic Novel", (Between Literature and Journalism), (Time Book Concerns), (With Al-Mazini) and (Early Origins of the Arabic Novel), In the field of folk studies, he presented (Folk Biography Writing), (Lights on Folk Biography), (Folk Biography), (The Wonderful World of Folk Literature), (Arabic Folk Biography),(Folk Roots of Arab Theatre). (Majzoub) and (Folk Biography Literature).

Many of his plays were presented on stage, including (Habdum Bazaza), which were presented in Cairo, Alexandria, Khartoum, Morocco and Syria, and the plays (Ra is angry), (Ibn Khaldun) and (Ayoub).

And in his literature journey he has (Sinbad’s Country) book, and in children’s literature he wrote a group of books including adventures in Africa, birth of a hero, Abla, boy and the fighter, swords and words, slaves revolution, knight and horse, the mettle, the victorious princess, Salem, the adventures of Qishtamer the clown, princess with feelings and the genie, the genie and the mad dog, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, the cobbler's favor, the flying genie, the diamond and greedy king, the enchanted ring and king of elves, the black crow, and the dream.

Series

Khuorchid also presented a number of dramatic series on the Egyptian radio, including Ali Al-Zeibaq, Seif bin Dhi Yazan, Antara bin Shaddad, Warem That Al-Imad, Ahlam Shahrazad, Al-Gharib Abu Hayyan Al-Tawhidi, and others. Farouk Khuorchid died while he was still the president of the Egyptian Writers Union, and despite the conflicts that had been raging within the union over the past years, and despite the accusations of him not presenting anything to the book, Khuorchid remained throughout his presidency holding on to basic intellectual principles, the most important of which was his leadership of a campaign against cultural normalization with Israel. In his last statement before his death, he condemned the visit of the playwriter Ali Salem to Israel as a kind of cultural normalization.

Work

Among his most important collections of stories are: (All is Void), (The Pirate and the Dragon), (The Bloody Triangle), and among his most important novels are: (Saif bin Dhi Yazan), (The Adventures of Saif bin Dhi Yazan), (Ali Al-Zeibaq), (A handful group of men) (peace on earth). It seems that Farouk Khuorchid's fame as a scholar and researcher in folklore and folk biography in particular, is what prompted him to discuss the folk biography of the hero (Saif bin Dhi Yazan) and his adventures; He presented it with a contemporary content and narrative, meaning that he projected our contemporary concerns on the facts and events that the source provided him with. In this novel, Saif bin Dhi Yazan ventures searching for knowledge and experience in order to perceive the world around him through events quoted from the biography and its characters, such as: Aqsa, Ayroud, the wise sane and Barnokh the magician... The difference is clear between the text of the biography and the text of the novel, and Farouk Khourchid's formulation of the popular biography in a contemporary form of fiction that does not replace the original text of the biography, However, this new formulation of the biography of (Saif bin Dhi Yazan) produced for us a new form that carries the contents and techniques of contemporary fiction. Because in terms of content, the author used the content of the adventures, making them appear as part of a great dream, or pipe dreams, or in some of its many stages a kind of nightmare. So that it is valid as a psychological explanation for the consequences of the souls fleeing with their son from King Seif. Through this dream, some events that King Saif seeks is motivated by curiosity are revealed, a feeling that does not accompany the recipient when looking at the text of the folk biography and its events. Not only to prove his courage, but to prove his persistence and quest – like any human in general - towards knowledge.

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