Shawki Explained

Shawki (also spelled Shawky, Shawqi, Shoghi, Shauki) 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 (1897–1957), Guardian and appointed head of the Baháʼí Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957
• Shawqi Abdul Amir (born 1949), Iraqi poet
• Afdlin Shauki (born 1971), Malaysian film producer and screenwriter

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
• Mostafa, Shawki (1940-2022), Al-Ahram newspaper Middle East Correspondent Cairo, Egypt. Chief of the Arabic Section in ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization), Montreal, Canada

Others

• Ahmed Shawki Museum, museum in Cairo, Egypt, in tribute of poet Ahmed Shawqi
• Chawki silkworms, alternative name for Bombyx mori