Word: fellaheen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While her papa, Egypt's King Farouk, attended the exhumation of one of his royal predecessors, Princess Ferial (age four months) faced the world in her first picture. Egypt's adoring fellaheen fondly assured one another that the picture bore a strong resemblance to their late princess, Cleopatra...
...Jerusalem's busy Jaffa Gate last week a bomb thrown into a bus loaded with Arab fellaheen killed four, wounded 36. Police arrested three Jews, a twelve-year-old schoolgirl alleged to be the bomb-thrower by the Arabs. Two Arab peddlers were killed by a bomb in Jerusalem's Old City on the same spot where a Jewish father and son had been killed a few days before, a much-photographed lemonade vendor was killed in the new city. Near Tel Aviv an Arab taxicab was fired upon, with one killed, two wounded...
Egypt's 18-year-old King Farouk last week drove through Cairo streets, sardine-packed with cheering, cotton-robed fellaheen to open the first Parliament elected since his Coronation. Sixteen-year-old Queen Farida, who has been breaking precedents right & left since her betrothal, last week led the way in breaking another. With Queen Mother Nazli she watched the opening from the royal loge, the first time female members of the royal family have attended the traditional male function...
Three weeks ago Farouk held elections for a new Parliament. Undoubtedly popular with the people, Farouk nevertheless faced the fact that the fellaheen, most of whom are illiterate, had for years voted for the Wafdists, who passed out the bribes, controlled the police and election officials. In this election Farouk controlled the police and officials. Smartly, he held elections in Upper & Lower Egypt on two different days so his police and troops could concentrate in one section at a time. Nahas Pasha followers were clamped in jail, their identity cards taken up to prevent their voting. A dozen persons were...
...three days Cairo's teeming population was tripled. To feed and clothe the visiting horde tons of mutton and beef were roasted and distributed in the city parks, untold galabiahs, the long cotton nightshirts which are the chief garments of the Egyptian fellaheen, were given away. Considering the excitement with which Egyptians approach such a simple problem as boarding a street car, it was a triumph for Cairo's police and details of the Egyptian Army that only 400 people fell from balconies, were trampled to death, pushed under cars, into the Nile, or otherwise injured...