A 93-year-old Searcy woman is trying to sell "fine antique items" that were confiscated from King Farouk's Abdeen Palace in Cairo after he was overthrown in a military coup in 1952. That's according ...
The biography of King Farouk I of Egypt, the penultimate king of the Muhammad Ali dynasty. Succeeding his father, Fuad I, to the throne, Farouk's reign ended when the Egyptian revolution of 1952 broke ...
In Egypt last week, newsmen were getting their first chance to explore the luxurious vulgarities of ex-King Farouk’s palaces (see box). They stared incredulously at the marble, the gold, the diamonds, ...