Egyptian secular writer and thinker. He was born on August 20, 1945 in the town of Zarqa, Damietta Governorate, Egypt. He holds a master's degree in agricultural sciences and a doctorate of philosophy in agricultural economics from Ain Shams University. He has two sons and two daughters. He was assassinated by the Islamic Group on June 8, 1992 in Cairo. He also had writings in the October magazine and the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahrar. The writings of Dr. Faraj Fouda wide debate between intellectuals, thinkers and clerics, and opinions differed and conflicting over it. He demanded the separation of religion from politics and the state and not from society. The Front of Al-Azhar Scholars launched a major attack on him, and demanded that the Committee on Parties Affairs not authorize his party. In 1992, the Front issued a statement in the Al-Nour Newspaper declaring his infidelity. He participated in founding the New Wafd Party, then resigned due to its refusal to join forces with the Muslim Brotherhood to run in the Egyptian People's Assembly elections in 1984. Then he tried to establish a party called the "Future Party" and was waiting for approval from the Parties Affairs Committee of the Egyptian Shura Council. He founded the Egyptian Association for Enlightenment on Asmaa Fahmy Street in Nasr City, in front of which he was assassinated.