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  Farouk of Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
King Farouk of Egypt (February 11, 1920 - March 18, 1965) was the second to last King of Egypt[?], succeeding his father Fuad I in 1936.
The King's alleged corruption in Egypt and defeat during the 1948 War[?], led to a military coup in 1952, directed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, who forced Farouk to abdicate and exiled him to Monaco, where the former king lived the rest of his life.
Farouk continued to live a lavish life even in exile, and continued his obessive accumulation of material goods.
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 Wikinfo | Farouk of Egypt
King Farouk of Egypt (February 11, 1920 - March 18, 1965) was the penultimate King of Egypt, succeeding his father Fuad I in 1936.
The royal Italian servants of Farouk were not interned and there is an unconfirmed story that Farouk had told Sir Miles Lampson, "I'll get rid of my Italians, when you get rid of yours." This remark was a reference to the ambassador's Italian wife.
The King's alleged corruption in Egypt and defeat during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, led to a military coup on July 23, 1952, directed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, who forced Farouk to abdicate and exiled him to Monaco, where the former king lived the rest of his life.
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 King Farouk I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
When King Fouad, his father died, Farouk was still under age, and accordingly a regency council was formed of Prince Mohammad Ali, Aziz Ezzat Pasha and Sherif Sabry Pasha to run the scene until his constitutional powers were completely handed over to him on July 29, 1937.
During his reign, Egypt was in a state of incomplete independence and suffered from chaos and corruption.
On July 23, 1952, the revolution erupted and King Farouk was forced to abdicate the throne to his son Ahmed Fouad II who was a child then.
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 Farouk Hair -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Farouk al-Kaddoumi (also known as Abu Al-Lutuf), (born in 1931) is the secretary-general of Fatah's central committee and PLO's political department in Tunisia.
Farouk Kaddoumi was born near Qalqilyah, later his family moved to Haifa and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War moved to Nablus.
Upon Arafat's death, Farouk Kaddoumi was elected to the position of the chairman of Fatah movement.
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 Farouk of Egypt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
King Farouk I of Egypt (Arabic: فاروق الاول) ‎ (February 11, 1920 – March 18, 1965) was the last ruling King of Egypt, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936.
His full title was "H.M. Farouk I, by the grace of God, King of Egypt and of Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, of Kordofan and of Darfur".
Farouk continued to live a lavish life even in exile, and continued his obsessive accumulation of material goods.
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 British Empire: The Map Room: Africa: Egypt
Egypt was a key part of the old spice and trade routes between Europe and Asia.
British military and political interest in Egypt first manifested itself as it became obvious that in the eighteenth century, India was falling under the influence of Britain (and away from France).
In its subsequent attack on Egypt in October 1956, Israel was joined by the British, who were enraged by the nationalization, and the French, who were angered by Egyptian aid to the revolt in Algeria.
www.britishempire.co.uk /maproom/egypt.htm   (3361 words)

  
 Egypt State Information Service - Rulers of Egypt
He was appointed as the Ottoman Sultan's Viceroy, Egypt's Governor on May 17, 1805; ruled Egypt till September 1848; and died in Alexandria on August 2nd 1849 and was buried in his mosque in the Citadel.
According to this agreement Mohammad Ali and his family were granted the hereditary right to rule Egypt and Sudan with the rule of succession to the eldest male in the family given that Egypt remains a part of the Ottoman Empire and that it pays an annual tribute (jizya) to the Ottoman Sultan.
In 1882, Britain occupied Egypt and Egypt occupied Sudan in 1884/5.
www.sis.gov.eg /En/History/ruler/080900000000000005.htm   (1219 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - Egyptian Royalty - The Kings and Queens of Egypt
Examines the interactions between Egypt and the Nubian and Sudanese civilizations to the south, focusing on the role of racial identity in the formulation of imperial power in Egypt.
Egypt: Land of the Pharaohs by Robert Morkot.
Farouk of Egypt: A Biography by Barrie St. Clair McBride.
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 Farouk of Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Farouk of Egypt King Farouk of Egypt (February 11, 1920 – March 18, 1965) was the penultimate King of Egypt, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936.
In 2005, Irma Capece Minutolo, Princess of Canosa (1941-), a retired Neapolitan-born opera singer, declared in an interview published in Al-Ahram that she married to the exiled King in 1957, when she was 16, and that she was writing her memoirs of her life with him.
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 Egypt in Prophecy!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Egypt is the most populous and influential nation in all of Africa.
The land of Egypt will be crushed, and smitten, by a modern Babylonian power from the "north." But this modern Babylon is centered in central Europe -- it will be a kingdom, or a union, of ten nations (symbolized by the "ten toes" of the image of Daniel the prophet, in Daniel, chapter two).
God says of the "daughter of Egypt," meaning modern Egypt, "The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together" (v.
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 Melia egypt travel-Egypt travel information
Egypt, or Kemet as it was called in Pharaonic time, was unified around 3000 BC Old Kingdom, or the Pyramid Age, lasted from 2650 - 2200 BC and during this period most of the country's 90 pyramids were built.
In 1952, Farouk the last king of Egypt was overthrown in the revolution led by Gamal Abd El Nasser.
Egypt has a long summer; from Mid-March until the beginning of December with temperatures during daytime between 25° and 40°C. Day time temperatures during winter varies between 15 and 28 degrees.
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 8/Hidden Transmitter in King Farouk's Palace
Farouk in a compromise caved in to the British demands and agreed to the installation of a pro-British prime minister.
The British feared that Farouk was gradually abandoning his neutrality and was moving closer to the enemy.
Sabit argues that Ambassador Lampson was almost pathologically hostile to Farouk and was eager to have him dethroned.
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 Egypt
Egypt has oil, but most of it is produced for its own use.
The kingdoms of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt were united in about 3100 BCE by Menes, the King of Upper Egypt, and he founded the first Egyptian dynasty.
Egypt was ruled by several governors during the Umayyad and Abbasid eras of Islamic history.
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 Ancestry Elements
EGYPT is divided into EGYPT I AND EGYPT II because of the long time frame and varied history.
EGYPT II Foundation horses are associated with the Royal Agricultural Society (RAS) Arabian breeding program which was established in 1914 and originally based on available bloodlines.
EGYPT II horses are found only in pedigrees that also carry EGYPT I. The former kings Faoud and Farouk of Egypt (combined rule: 1917-1952) maintained the Inshass Stud as their private venture.
www.alkhamsa.org /site/ancelements.html   (1356 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Heritage | Farouk's coin lost to Egypt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The coin Egypt has now failed to recover is a $20 Double Eagle coin, one of the great treasures of Farouk's impressive antiquities and coin collection.
Sotheby's, acting on behalf of the new Republic of Egypt, was in charge of selling the astonishing collection assembled by the dethroned monarch, who was one of the most enthusiastic coin collectors of all time.
Now that Egypt has been unable to retrieve the coin its new, unnamed owner will be given an official Certificate of Transfer which makes it legally his.
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 .:Egypt Melody: Holidays in Egypt
Its borders stretch from the Mediterranean in the North, where the Nile meets the sea, to the borders of Sudan, Libya and over the Sinai Peninsula to the borders of Israel and by sea, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
During the coming hundreds of years Cairo and Egypt was alternately controlled from Damascus, Baghdad and from different clans like the Tulunfamily, the Fatimides, the Ayoub family and the Mamelouks.
Egypt has a long summer, from mid - march until the beginning of December with temperatures during daytime between 25° and 40° C. Daytime temperatures during winter vary between 15 and 28 degrees.
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 Al-Ahram Weekly | Egypt | Death of a princess   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Princess Fadia, the youngest daughter of late King Farouk, Egypt's last monarch, was in the midst of preparations for a New Year's Eve family gathering she was set to host at her home in Switzerland, when she died suddenly on 28 December.
Their mother, Queen Farida, King Farouk's first wife, remained in Egypt for at least 10 years after the revolution, before moving first to Lebanon then to Switzerland, where she joined her girls.
The late queen, however, eventually went back to Egypt, where she spent her last years and was ultimately buried, as she had always wished.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/620/eg11.htm   (817 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Egypt's Islamic opposition boosts power
Egypt's oldest opposition party, the Wafd, won three seats while the newly-founded Ghad Party of former presidential candidate Ayman Nour took one.
The Brotherhood is opposed to violence and portrays itself as the moderate face of Islam, while seeking the implementation of Muslim Sharia law in Egypt.
These commentators add that another root of Egypt's current political upheaval is the critical attitude of voters towards US policy in the Middle East - particularly with regards to Israel and Iraq.
www.isn.ethz.ch /securitywatch/details_print.cfm?id=13645   (726 words)

  
 Writer's Corner - Gold and Greed
Due to the demands of prosecuting World War II and the delicate nature of the U. relationship with Egypt, it was considered diplomatically inopportune to pursue the matter any further at that time.
When King Farouk’s coin collection was auctioned in Cairo in 1954, following His Majesty’s forced exile in 1952, the U. State Department officially requested that the king’s 1933 double eagle be removed from the auction and returned to the United States.
The King Farouk 1933 double eagle resurfaced in 1996, when London dealer Stephen Fenton and U. dealer Jay Parrino were arrested in New York by a Federal agent, after attempting to consummate the sale of the piece.
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King Farouk I of Egypt (Arabic: فاروق الاول) ‎ (February 11, 1920 – March 18, 1965) was the last ruling King of Egypt, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936.
His father Fuad I did not speak any Arabic, because he was of Ottoman descent, and spoke Turkish in his court.
The King's alleged corruption in Egypt and defeat during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, led to a military coup on July 23, 1952, directed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, who forced Farouk to abdicate and exiled him to Italy and Monaco, where the former king lived the rest of his life.
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 Egypt : Utah IMC
Many did, but a sizable number of others find work in Egypt, notably under the regime of Gamal Abdal Nasser (1918-1970), an Egyptian army officer and political leader, who was the first president of the republic of Egypt (1956-70).
Goodrick-Clarke states that King Farouk had been "impressed" by his garage mechanics recruited from Afrika Korps POWs, and: "Wondered what he might achieve with officers from elite units of the Gestapo and SS who had fought so hard against the hated British" (p174).
Although King Farouk was ousted in a military coup in January 1952, the Generals of the Egyptian armed forces were themselves "great admirers" of the Nazi's and "availed themselves of further large-scale imports of ex-Nazi expertise".
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 Opera Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Surveys the history of religion in Egypt, from Akhenaten and the origins of monotheism, to Coptic Christianity, and the establishment and early history of Islam; from Religion Around the World.
This overview of the Southern Egypt Development Project and its first phase, named "Toshka," clearly explains the potential benefits and impacts, difficulties anticipated and encountered, and some of the criticisms; by Doug Alexander, from Geographical Magazine (February 2002).
Tom Van Eynde's photographs recording the architecture and landscape of Egypt are shot and printed to evoke romantic Victorian times; from the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
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 Writers Corner - Numismatic Gumshoe: On the Trail of King Farouk
King Farouk the First of Egypt, who reigned from 1936 until 1952, was a prolific collector.
When all was said and done, King Farouk had amassed one of the largest, most important collections of coins in the history of numismatics.
After the Egyptian military forced King Farouk to flee the country in 1952, the American coin dealers had a great interest in what was to become of the Farouk Collection.
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 Gamal Abdel-Nasser Biography.
Nasser's father was an employee of the middle class which made Nasser more aware of poverty of the majority of the people in Egypt.
issatisfied with the corruption of the king Farouk regime and the British occupation, together with a group of colleagues, he formed a semi-underground organization, The Free Officers, known in Egypt as El-Dhobatt El-Ahrar.
On July 26, King Farouk of Egypt left Alexandria on his personal Yacht, never to return to Egypt again, and his toddler son, Ahmad Fouad, was soon declared King.
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 eBay Store - Boy King Stamps: Egypt Stamps, Egypt Control Blocks, Flight Covers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Egypt, 1937 King Farouk 6m Control Block A/42p - MNH
Egypt, 1937 King Farouk 6m Control Block A/42s - MNH
Egypt, 1922 Harrison Essay of King Fouad 1 LE Black
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 et - Full Story   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The book, which will be put out by the Ministry of Youth, is written in simple Arabic for children and aims at highlighting Darwish’s musical achievements and pivotal role in Egypt’s musical heritage.
Egypt is about to get its first new national atlas since 1925, when the nation puts out the only official atlas we’ve ever had.
The new project, which is the brainchild of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Egyptian Scientific Center, will update 80 years of geographic changes, seeking out professional services from reputed historians, geographers, geologists, naturalists, economists and marketing specialists.
www.egypttoday.com /article.aspx?ArticleID=5665   (633 words)

  
 Military history of Egypt during World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
British influence, however, continued to dominate Egypt's political life and fostered fiscal, administrative, military and governmental reforms.
In 1943, the British Army surrounded the Abdeen Palace and threatened to overthrow the government after there were reports that King Farouk openly supported the German Army.
The Vichy French forces who were the Nazi's allies, controlled Algeria to the west and Syria to the north of Palestine and were awaiting Nazi triumphs.
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