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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The palace was build in 1897 in the heart of Cairo's Downtown by Italian architect and engineer Antonio Lasciac, who also built Al-Montazah palace, Banque Misr, and the famous Kedoya Buildings ...