the streets of Cairo and Alexandria echoed to the same cries: “Down with the King!” and “Go to your mother in America, Farouk!” (Farouk’s 57-year-old mother, with whom he has quarreled ...

On returning to Egypt to be crowned, the young King chose a commoner as his intended bride, pert little 16-year-old Sasi Naz Zulfikar, daughter of a palace ... streets of Cairo. Farouk remained ...

Of the several memoirs that came out for this year’s Cairo International Book Fair, two show the turbulent politics of the first half of the 20th century ...

Heba Farouk Mahfouz is a reporter/researcher in The Post’s Cairo bureau. She joined the paper in 2016 and has covered human rights, gender issues, the economy, religious minorities and the war ...

Moreover, Halim stops short of accusing King Farouk and his associates of being behind the January 1952 fire that hit Cairo amidst demonstrations ... a corrupt Khedivial palace, an overpowering ...