Ahmed Zaki Abu Shadi[a] (Arabic: أحمد زكي أبو شادي, ALA-LC: Aḥmad Zakī Abū Shādī; February 9, 1892 – April 12, 1955 in Cairo) was an Egyptian Romantic poet, publisher, medical doctor, bacteriologist and bee scientist.

His mother, Amina, was the sister of Egyptian poet Mostafa Naguib;[1] she held literary salons in Cairo.

Abu Shadi was a Wafdist like his father, a poet and publisher of experimental Arabic poetry, and a physician and scientist committed to fostering advances in science and agriculture.

[4] He established a group of poets known as "Apollo's Society" or The Apollo School (Arabic: مدرسة أبولو)[5] whose members and contributors included artists and poets from beyond Egypt's borders and across the Arab world; they included Ibrahim Nagi, ʾAli al-ʾInani, Kamil Kilani, Mahmud ʾImad, Mahmud Sadiq, Ahmad al-Shayib, the Egyptian calligrapher Sayed Ibrahim, the celebrated Tunisian poet Aboul-Qacem Echebbi (or Qasm al-Shabbi), 'Ali Mahmud Taha, Mahmud Abu'l-Wafa, Hasan al-Qayati, Hasan Kamil al-Sayrafi, Ramzy Maftah, and the Tunisian poet Salih Jawdat.

[6] Abu Shadi wrote poetry, as well as essays on social reform, Islam, politics, and the arts.

He wrote articles of literary criticism, and lyric qasidas, stories, opera librettos and plays in verse.

In 1919 he founded the Apis Club, an international organization of individual beekeepers and bee scientists in different countries, based at Port Hill House in Benson, Oxfordshire.

Abu Shadi launched and edited the Apis Club periodical Bee World, 'an international monthly journal devoted to the progressive interests of modern bee culture',[8] which was later edited by Annie D. Betts (1929–1949)[9] and by Dr. Eva Crane (1950–1983).

The Abu Shadi's left England and relocated to Egypt in 1922, where they raised a family: the eldest daughter Safeya, was named after Safeya Zaghloul the popular activist feminist and wife of Saad Zaghloul, the 19th-20th-century Egyptian revolutionary and statesman; a son, Amin Ramzy; and the youngest daughter, Hoda, named after the 19th-20th-century Egyptian feminist Huda Shaarawi.