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Thus the bloody trail seemed to lead, at least indirectly, to Egypt, and a brown three-story villa off Avenue Fuad in Cairo's exclusive Heliopolis suburb. There, in exile, guarded by the Egyptian police of his friend King Farouk, plus ten Palestinian toughs, sits the Mufti, the Middle East's greatest malcontent and plotter. The Mufti hated Abdullah because he had counted on Abdullah's arms to whip the Jews, whereupon the Mufti would take over all Palestine. Instead, Abdullah made peace with the Jews and personally annexed parts of Palestine to his tiny kingdom...
Western Europe might lie almost defenseless under the shadow of Red guns, but some members of European society, at least, were carrying on bravely. Egypt's King Farouk, for one, moved serenely northward through France's peaceful summer landscape. Traveling incognito as Fuad Pasha Masri (Fuad-the-Egyptian) in a glittering train of seven Cadillacs with motorcycle outriders, while his private plane hopped along beside him from one airfield to the next, he startled hotel managers by arriving unannounced in the middle of the night and demanding 22 rooms for himself and staff. (At Lyons he complained that...
...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...
...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...
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...