King Farouk of Egypt’s life was a brutal lesson that “the bigger they are, the harder they fall.” From birth, the ruler’s whole world was a procession of luxury, debauchery, and ...

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Egyptian security forces have detained prominent economist and journalist Abdel Khaleq Farouk, the Egyptian Network for Human Rights said. Farouk, 67, was arrested on Sunday evening and taken to ...

Washington, D.C. — The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Egyptian authorities to immediately release economic commentator and analyst Abdel Khaleq Farouk, who was arrested October 20 on ...

Egyptian poet Farouk Shousha, a winner of the state's Nile Award for Literature, died on Friday morning at the age of 80 according to a statement by the Arabic Language Academy in Cairo.

A Man in Our House is a 1961 Egyptian film about the resistance to British rule in Egypt which ended in the exile of King Farouk in 1954 and the rise to power of Gamal Abdel Nasser.

More than 3,000 years ago, a long sword emblazoned with the insignia of Ancient Egypt’s Ramses II ... ferocious battles with the Libyans. Heba Farouk Mahfouz and Paul Schemm contributed ...

Heba Farouk Mahfouz is a reporter/researcher in ... Mahfouz previously reported for the Japanese News Agency in Cairo and Egypt's leading independent news website, Mada Masr.

King Farouk of Egypt’s life was a brutal lesson that “the bigger they are, the harder they fall.” From birth, the ruler’s whole world was a procession of luxury, debauchery, and extravagance, but this ...