Word: farouk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the death in 1936 of Egypt's corpulent King Fuad, the eyes of Egyptian jellaheen have watched the career of his successor-son, 18-year-old King Farouk I. 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 lady-in-waiting, bestowed on her the name Farida, meaning "The Only One." Bickering resulted in the postponement of the King's marriage until Feb. 11. Bickering last week got Farouk into much deeper hot water...
Your reference to the Egyptian Parliament being "a steaming little sweatbox" during the recent investiture of King Farouk (TIME, p. 18, Aug. 9) would have been expected, except that again American engineering and manufacturing has brought cool comfort and the other benefits of true air conditioning to a tropical potentate...
...anticipation of the usual July weather, government officials last January, decided that the Parliament Hall at Cairo would be air conditioned in time for the ascendency of King Farouk. American-trained engineers in Egypt selected the necessary equipment which was rushed from this country and placed in operation just in time for the regal rites. This was confirmed by cable on the day of the event...
...Engaged. Farouk I. King of Egypt, 18; and his childhood friend, Sasi Naz Zulficar, 16-year-old daughter of a judge in the Alexandria Mixed Court of Appeals, granddaughter of onetime Premier Mohamed Said Pasha; in Cairo. The wedding date, Miss Zulfkar's 17th birthday, is almost a year away...
Fuad I came to the throne poor, yet left a private fortune of $50,000,000 to Farouk I, thus making the new King probably the wealthiest Egyptian. His Late Majesty accomplished this by confiscating the estates of the mad Prince Ahmed Seif Eddin. That he was mad or at least mad at King Fuad, the Prince proved decisively by firing a bullet which lodged in His Majesty's throat. This made Fuad I often cough and gurgle horribly, and His Majesty carried the bullet to his tomb...