{"id":63822,"date":"2025-11-27T18:39:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabmediaagency.com\/?p=63822"},"modified":"2025-11-27T18:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:39:56","slug":"fayrouz-fouad-hidden-worlds-because-its-not-just-horror-its-everything-the-mind-fails-to-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabmediaagency.com\/?p=63822","title":{"rendered":"Fayrouz Fouad: \u201cHidden Worlds\u2026 Because It\u2019s Not Just Horror, It\u2019s Everything the Mind Fails to Explain\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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From the very first moment of meeting Fayrouz Fouad, it becomes unmistakably clear that her path into the media world was neither accidental nor a fleeting passion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She comes from a home where journalism was not merely a profession\u2014but the very air they breathed. Recalling her earliest memories, she says:\u201cMy father, the late Ahmed Fouad, was a journalist and head of the military department at Al-Ahram. He taught me the craft and made me fall in love with it since childhood. He even used to ask for my opinion on what he wrote.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fayrouz did not simply grow up liking media; she grew up inside a family of journalists\u2014father, mother, and brother\u2014making it almost inevitable that the love for the profession ran in her blood long before she fully understood it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She laughs as she remembers a conversation with her father when she was in first preparatory grade. He asked, \u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201dHer answer came without hesitation: \u201cA TV presenter\u2026 and I want to host a horror show.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

The reason was simple. From the fourth grade, Fayrouz was an avid reader of horror literature, spending her pocket money on the books of Ahmed Khaled Tawfik. She admired his wit, his unique storytelling, and the mysterious worlds that shaped her imagination and personality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite scoring highly in high school and being accepted into the Faculty of Urban Planning at Cairo University\u2014a choice encouraged by her family who believed that media is a talent, while engineering guaranteed a \u201csecure future\u201d\u2014Fayrouz did not surrender.\u201cI don\u2019t enter anything unless I\u2019m sure I can excel at it,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And she did excel, graduating with a strong grade in her final project.Yet something inside her remained unsettled. The childhood dream kept knocking\u2014quietly, persistently, relentlessly.In a moment of honesty with herself, she finally told her father: \u201cI want to be a TV presenter\u2026 I can\u2019t ignore it anymore.\u201dShe went for a camera test at ON TV with Dr. Emad Gad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While waiting for a reply, her father suggested she apply temporarily to the Ministry of Planning. Thanks to her strong language skills, she was hired immediately. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And so began her professional journey in 2008\u2014working, marrying, raising children, fulfilling all of life\u2019s obligations\u2026 while the dream stayed alive, unbroken.Then came the COVID-19 pandemic\u2014bringing isolation, reflection, and a heavy grief. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her father had passed away shortly before. In the middle of that emotional storm, an advertisement appeared for a media training course that included producing four episodes on Al-Seha Wal Gamal TV channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fayrouz felt it was a hand reaching out to pull her from the darkness.She enrolled, shone, and by the end of the course, she was told: \u201cYou\u2019re joining us on air.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The training deeply transformed her performance. She loved preparing her episodes herself, which strengthened her connection to the craft. Her first show, Kalam Kobbar (\u201cGrown-Up Talk\u201d), tackled topics like divorce, bullying, and shopping addiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The audience\u2019s reaction was overwhelmingly positive. She then moved to a morning show, Sabahak Rose, followed by Hekayat Banat, which focused on women\u2019s issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the true turning point came with Elly Khayef Yerouh, a program that boldly addressed sensitive topics including female genital mutilation and renewing religious discourse. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sheikh Hassan El-Ganainy was a frequent guest and would tell her, \u201cI love your questions.\u201dIn this phase, Fayrouz began carving a name for herself as a presenter unafraid of difficult, human-centered subjects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She pauses, her eyes glistening, as she recalls her camera test with MBC.\u201cI felt my father was with me\u2026 The directors and cameramen praised my performance, and the director told me it was the best camera test he had ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For her, it was a sign\u2014proof that her father\u2019s spirit was still lighting her path.Later, she presented Hekawy Fayrouz (\u201cFayrouz\u2019s Stories\u201d) with TV host Mohamed Ghanem, a show that focused on trending topics. It was then she asked herself the defining question:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy am I only helping others build their shows? Why don\u2019t I create something of my own?\u201dFrom that moment, her dearest project\u2014Awalem Khafeya (\u201cHidden Worlds\u201d)\u2014was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With her husband producing the show out of belief in her dream, Fayrouz finally created the program she had envisioned since childhood. She produced two full seasons before the show was officially adopted by Al-Hadath Al-Youm TV channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n