Word: fawziya
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Farouk had arrived from a European holiday with Fawziya, Faiza, Faika and Fathiya, his sisters, and his mother Queen Nazli "a handsomer Queen than Cleopatra." His father Fuad considered that "names commencing with 'F' are exceedingly propitious," and today Egyptians consider Farouk just about tops in a name beginning with F since it means in translation "One Who Carefully Distinguishes Between Right & Wrong." In any Eastern country the populace always frantically cheer their Lord and Master,* and both Alexandria and Cairo went deliriously wild last week over Farouk I. In Egypt some $50,000 will buy enough triumphal...