Word: farouk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Chamberlain handed the bride's father an envelope containing a check for 10,000,000 piastres ($257,000), half of the royal dowry (the other half to be paid in case of divorce). The father then reached out his right hand thumb upright to King Farouk, who pressed his own right thumb against it while the Sheik El Maraghi threw a green silk cloth over both hands. Intoned the bride's father...
...narrow rocky cataracts of the Sudan border. Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey. They went to celebrate the wedding of Farouk, their 18-year-old king, to Farida, meaning "unique," his 17-year-old Queen...
...small room in Cairo's Koubbeh Palace waited King Farouk. in the black & gold uniform of a field marshal. Opposite His Majesty, in the morning coat and red tarboosh of Egyptian officialdom, was the bride's father, Judge Youssef Zulficar Pasha, an old friend of Egypt's royal family and vice president of the Mixed Court of Appeals at Alexandria. Religious sanction was given by the presence of Egypt's supreme religious authority, Sheik Mustafa El Maraghi, of Ahzar University, and three other sheiks, all in purple robes and white turbans. Waiting patiently in an anteroom...
...youth of handsome features and imperial mien is Egypt's pimply-complexioned, sport-loving King Farouk. Aged only 18, His Majesty, who came to the throne in July, last week took the risky course of executing what amounted to a bloodless royal coup d'etat. By all odds the largest political party in Egypt is the Wafd, and its leader Premier El Nahas Pasha has often dramatically declaimed: "Egypt is the guardian of Oriental Democracy!" Last week Nahas Pasha emerged from the Royal Palace wailing: "I have been cast aside as Premier like an old shoe...
Called by Farouk last week to form a new Cabinet was Egypt's leading wealthy political intrigant, Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha. His private army & political storm troops are the famed "Greenshirts." veterans of scores of street scuffles with the "Blueshirts," who are the private army of the Wafd. Outgoing Premier El Nahas not long ago ordered the Greenshirts dissolved, blaming them for an attack on his life; incoming Premier Mahmoud last week dissolved not only the El Nahas Blueshirts but all Egyptian "shirts"'-apparently thinking he and King Farouk could rely on the Army...