Arkan Fouad

Syrian singer and actor. He was born in Jabal al-Arab in the Suwayda Governorate in Syria in 1948. He lived for a while in the Lebanese capital Beirut and formed a musical band there in which he played the oud. Then he returned to Syria when the time came for his conscription and joined the Moral Guidance Department of the Syrian Arab Army from 1968 to 1971. He was accredited as a singer in 1973. He left his country Syria and settled in Egypt in pursuit of work in the field of singing and began in the city of Alexandria, where he became acquainted. On the artist Sayed Makkawi, he also had an important experience in acting with the artist Mohamed Sobhi within the performances of the Theater for All Festival, where he participated in the plays (Carmen, The Woman’s Game).