Farouk I (1920-1965) was the second king of modern Egypt. Though he was dynamic and a nationalist, the realization of being powerless under British sovereignty turned his interests from statecraft to the gratification of his desires. Farouk, the only...
Farouk I of Egypt (Arabic: فاروق الأول Fārūq al-Awwal) (February 11, 1920 – March 18, 1965), was the tenth ruler from the Muhammad Ali Dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936. His...
PAUNCHY, BALDING and bloated, Farouk was thirty-two when he lost his throne. The Egyptian monarchy had been set up by the British in the 1920s and Farouk had been king for sixteen years since succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936. Sir Miles...
Farouk Nassar, 79, died Dec. 26 of a heart attack following a Dec. 12 stroke suffered, according to his son, upon learning of the assassination of Gebran Ghassan Tueni. A 42-year veteran correspondent for the Associated Press, he had retired in 1996 to be...
