| Fouad Haddad | |
| Native Name: | فؤاد حداد |
| Native Name Lang: | Arabic |
| Birth Place: | Cairo |
| Occupation: | poet and writer |
Fouad Haddad (Arabic: فؤاد حداد|Fuʼād Ḥaddād; 1927–1985) was an Egyptian poet, who wrote in the Egyptian vernacular.
Fouad Haddad was born in Cairo. His mother came from a Syrian family and his father was a Lebanese academic who later became an Egyptian citizen.[1]
He joined the Egyptian Communist Party, and was jailed from 1953 to 1956 and 1959 to 1964. He collaborated with the composer Sayed Mekkawi, providing lyrics for Al-Masararati, a show broadcast on Egyptian National Radio and subsequently turned a television programme.[1]
Fouad Haddad and his friend, the poet Salah Jaheen, were the subject of a 2011 television documentary by Dinah Hamza.[2]