Farouk Hosny is an Egyptian artist. He initially started his career as the Director of El- Anfoushy Culture Palace, during which time he painted landscapes and seascapes depicting Alexandria. In the late 1960s, while he was on a trip to France, Hosni began painting abstractions. From 1971 to 1978 he lived in Paris, where he served as Director of the Egyptian Culture Center. During that period, in 1971, Hosni was awarded the National Prize of the Cagnes-sur-Mer Festival in Southern France. In 1979, after a short stay in Cairo, Hosni moved to Rome as Vice Director and then Director of the Egyptian Academy in Rome. He continued to paint and received positive attention from Italian cities when his work was shown on several occasions in private and public spaces. In 1987 he returned to Cairo when he was appointed to the position of Minister of Culture. As Minister of Culture, he modernized Egypt's cultural infrastructure by spearheading major projects like the construction/restoration of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Nubian Museum and Alexandria National Museum, the renovation of Islamic, Coptic, and ancient sites, the expansion of art centers and cultural palaces, and the ""Reading for All"" initiative. During his tenure, Hosny announced the development of the Grand Egytian Museum (GEM); a modern, technologically advanced institution in Giza that would house, preserve and exhibit over 100,000 artefacts. Shortly thereafter he rebranded the Department of Antiquities as the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA); a high-level council that was tasked with directly managimg, regulating, and protecting all archaeological excavations and antiquities in Egypt. In the 2000s, GEM and SCA, under the leadership of Hosny and Dr. Zahi Hawass, then became central to the aggressive State campaign for the return of Egyptian artefacts to the country. After just over 20 years of service as the Minister of Culture, Hosny effectively moved away from politics, focusing exclusively on his role as a prominent, globally recognized artist and cultural benefactor in Egypt. He creates art and exhibits, and he established the Farouk Hosny Foundation for Culture and Arts to support young creatives. He also opened the Farouk Hosny Museum; a space of memory and beauty that seeks to revive aesthetic dialogue and to establish art as a sustainable human value and a fundamental source of cultural awareness.