Al-Ahram Weekly Online
7 - 13 February 2002
Issue No.572
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50 years ago this week, King Farouk celebrated his last birthday as king of Egypt. Al-Ahram Weekly offers glimpses of the monarch's early years and his last birthday party

Sent away
Who was King Farouk? Fayza Hassan attempts to understand the last monarch of Egypt: failed king, cheap crook and philanderer, or misunderstood sovereign and maligned ruler?
A splendid party indeed
Contrary to common perceptions of Farouk's private parties as being splendid affairs, Karim Thabet recalls His Majesty's birthday party in 1952 as being more of an ordeal

Happy birthday, Your Majesty
King Farouk's birthday celebrations in 1952 were unusually subdued. Amina Elbendary reads through the pages of Al-Ahram to gauge the popular mood in that fateful year

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