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 Bahá'í 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
  • Taher Shawqi, Afghan musician
  • Tarek Shawki (born 1957), the Chief of the ICTs Section within the "Information Society Division" in UNESCO, Paris, France

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