Shawki
Shawki (also spelled Shawky, Shawqi, Chawki Arabic: شوقي, French: Chaouqui or Turkish: Şevki), is a masculine Arabic given name and surname.
It may refer to:
Given name
- Shawqi Aboud, Iraqi football manager
- Shawki Awad Balzuhair (born 1981), citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the US Guantanamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba
- Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam, Grand Mufti of Egypt
- Shawky Gharib (born 1959), Egyptian football player
- Şevki Balmumcu (1905–1982), Turkish architect
- Shoghí Effendí (March 1, 1897 – November 4, 1957), Guardian and appointed head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957.
- Shawqi Abdul Amir (12 September 1949), Iraqi poet.
Middle name
- Yakup Şevki Subaşı (1876-1939), also known as Yakub Shevki Pasha, general of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army
Surname
- Ahmed Shawqi (1868-1932), Egyptian pan-Arab poet, dramatist.
- Ahmed Chawki, Moroccan singer, also known as Chawki
- Ayman Shawky (born 1962), Egyptian football player
- Farid Shawki (1920–1998), Egyptian actor, screenwriter and film producer
- Maged Shawky, Egyptian businessman and administrator
- Mohamed Shawki (born 1981), Egyptian footballer
- Tarek Shawki (born 1957), the Chief of the ICTs Section within the "Information Society Division" in UNESCO, Paris, France
Others
- Ahmed Shawki Museum, museum in Cairo, Egypt, in tribute of poet Ahmed Shawqi
- Chawki silkworms, alternative name for Bombyx mori
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.