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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...