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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eminence Al Sheikh Mustafa Abdel Razek, the rectorship has been vacant and the university split by feuds. At the same time Al Azhar's position of Islamic leadership is threatened by a swirling current of social change, and by the emergent authority of two modern, secular universities (Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Resplendent | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...challenge of the athletic, tweedy, young Oxford-trained dons of Fuad el Awal and Farouk el Awal universities has only intensified the religious fanaticism of Al Azhar's bearded sheikhs. Each year the Senatus combs the secular universities in search of heresy. When blind Philosopher Taha Hussein Bey, dean of Fuad el Awal and leading man in Arab letters, dared to teach Shaw's Saint Joan, he was assailed by Al Azhar's Senatus. (In the play, a character denounces Mohamed and his "dupes.") Rioting Al Azharites forced Taha Hussein to resign, the fuss broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Resplendent | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

Died. Princess Chevikiar Ibrahim*,72, great-granddaughter of Mohamed Ali (founder of Egypt's modern royal dynasty), cousin of King Farouk and first wife of his father (the late King Fuad, whom she divorced while he was still Crown Prince), grande dame of Cairo society, authoress, philanthropist, five-times-married suffragist leader; in Cairo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...Fuad Sarruf, journalism professor at the American University in Cairo, and a staff of 15 do the translating from the Digest into Al Mukhtar. The magazine is finally edited and laid out in the Digest's Pleasantville (N.Y.) offices, returned to Cairo for printing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Al Mukhtar | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

This he has done since he was 18. By the time ailing Fuad I died in 1936, the Wafd and other constitutional nationalists had finally wrung a return to parliamentary government from him. Before Farouk had been King two years he took advantage of a Wafd split and nominated his own ministers. Soon afterward, with the support of religious leaders and impoverished fellahin, he made Egyptian policy his own. One day it looks pro-British; another, pro-Italian; but it is always pro-Farouk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Twenty-One | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

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