Shaker Abdul Hamid | |
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Born | Asyut, Egypt | June 20, 1952
Died | March 18, 2021 68) Giza, Egypt | (aged
Education | Cairo University |
Awards | Sheikh Zayed Book Award |
Shaker Abdel Hamid Suleiman (June 20, 1952 – March 18, 2021) [1] was the Egyptian Minister of Culture from 2011 to 2017. He served as Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Culture, then Minister of Culture [2] at the Ministry of Kamal al-Ganzuri in December 2011. He was also a Professor of Creative Psychology at The Egyptian Academy of Arts. [3]
He was director of the Talent Education Program at the Graduate School of the Arab Gulf University (Kingdom of Bahrain / 2005 -2011). He served as Dean of the Higher Institute of Art Criticism at the Academy of Arts in Egypt and later as Vice-President of the Academy from 2003 to 2005. Suleiman's academic works contributed to literary and plastic criticism. He specialized in the study of artistic creativity and taste in children and adults.
A series of writings during which he employed psychology and creative studies in the fields of literary, formative and cinematic criticism, including, but not exclusively, the following:
He died on Thursday, March 18, 2021, in Giza, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt. [5] [6] [7] [8] He was 68. [9]
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