He graduated from the Faculty of Law at Cairo University in 1960, and joined the research department of the Cairo newspaper Al-Ahram since 1958, where he spent 18 years during which he was included in the workplace until he became the editor-in-chief of the newspaper. Since 1976, he joined the family of the Kuwaiti Al-Arabi magazine and became its editor-in-chief. For years, he specialized in dealing with Islamic affairs, where he participated in most Islamic dialogue seminars and conferences, and made field visits to various countries of the Islamic world in Asia and Africa, and introduced them to the series of surveys of Al-Araby magazine. He was greatly influenced by the thought of Sheikh Muhammad Al-Ghazali, may God have mercy on him. He devoted most of his efforts to addressing the problems of Islamic and Arab thought in our contemporary reality, calling for the rationalization of religious discourse, and keeping pace with the ABCs of the times. His strong linguistic skill and grandiose establishment qualified him with distinction to be one of the most prominent Arab writers and contemporary Islamic thinkers. The predominance of intellectual concerns did not prevent him from paying attention to internal Egyptian issues, as he took great care in his articles on issues of political and social reform in Egypt, and even dedicated a number of his books to them. He also paid special attention to the Palestinian cause, like most Arab writers. Most of his recent books. It is noteworthy that Mr. Howeidi originally belonged to a Brotherhood family, but he separated organizationally from the Brotherhood since he was young, and was arrested during the days of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser for two years, and he was then seventeen years old, and he says that this experience affected his life a lot. His books include: Iran from the Inside - 1988. The Crisis of Religious Awareness - 1988. Disgraced Citizens - 1990. So that there is no sedition - 1992. Islam and democracy - 1993. Inferior religiosity - 1994. The slanderers: the discourse of secular extremism in the balance - 1996. Fulfilling the Truth - 1998. Banned Articles - 1998. Egypt Wants a Solution - 1998. Falsifying Consciousness - 1999. Taliban: God's Soldiers in the Wrong Battle - 2001. On Corruption and its Years - 2006. Our Horses That Don't Harvest - 2007.