Farouk, born in Tanta, Egypt in February 1956, is one of the region’s most popular and prolific authors of detective and sci-fi novels, having published more than 500 books.He studied medicine, graduating from the Tanta School of Medicine in 1980. He began publishing his most popular series in the mid-1980s, and his books rose to popularity among Egyptian teens in the 1990s.He is the author of a number of series, most famously Future Files, Impossible Man, and Cocktail 2000. One hundred and sixty books appeared in the “Impossible Man“ series alone, which is headed up by undercover agent Adham Sabry. It ran from 1984 through 2008.Emirati writer Salha Obeaid said on Twitter that, as a child reader, she used to buy new books in “The Future Files” series every time the family visited Egypt, and that she believes it was this series “that led me to choose an electronic engineering major at university.”Egyptian author Mansoura Ez Eldin added that she had all the releases in “The Impossible Man,” “The Future Files,” and “Cocktail 2000” series, “whose heroes were my childhood companions. “Farouk also wrote for a number of newspapers, including El Akhbar, Sobian Wi Banat, and El Dostour. One of Farouk’s novels appeared in English in 2015, Midnight Sun, in a self-published translation by Husam Abu Sarris.
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Farouk, born in Tanta, Egypt in February 1956, is one of the region’s most popular and prolific authors of detective and sci-fi novels, having published more than 500 books.He studied medicine, graduating from the Tanta School of Medicine in 1980. He began publishing his most popular series in the mid-1980s, and his books rose to popularity among Egyptian teens in the 1990s.He is the author of a number of series, most famously Future Files, Impossible Man, and Cocktail 2000. One hundred and sixty books appeared in the “Impossible Man“ series alone, which is headed up by undercover agent Adham Sabry. It ran from 1984 through 2008.Emirati writer Salha Obeaid said on Twitter that, as a child reader, she used to buy new books in “The Future Files” series every time the family visited Egypt, and that she believes it was this series “that led me to choose an electronic engineering major at university.”Egyptian author Mansoura Ez Eldin added that she had all the releases in “The Impossible Man,” “The Future Files,” and “Cocktail 2000” series, “whose heroes were my childhood companions. “Farouk also wrote for a number of newspapers, including El Akhbar, Sobian Wi Banat, and El Dostour. One of Farouk’s novels appeared in English in 2015, Midnight Sun, in a self-published translation by Husam Abu Sarris.
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He was born in the Egyptian city of Tanta, and first showed an interest in reading at a very young age. With the encouragement of his parents he made his first attempts at writing at the age of about thirteen, and in high school joined journalism, photography, and theatre workgroups.He received his Master's degree from the University of Tanta in 1980. Just a year before his graduation he received an award from the Cultural Centre of Tanta for his novel The Prophecy, which was later published as the first book of his Cocktail 2000 series.He started writing Rewayat by following an advertisement in the World of Books magazine, saying that the Modern Arab Association was seeking science fiction novelists. He submitted his novel Ray of Death, and it was published a year later as the first book in Malaf Al Mostakbal (The Future File) series. Soon afterwards he started on his other main series of novels, Ragol Al Mostaheel (The Man of the Impossible), which is said to be based on the actual exploits of an Egyptian Central Intelligence agent called A.S. (alias: Adham Sabri).
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