Today King Farouk boarded the royal Mahrousa yacht heading towards Italy leaving Egypt for good. Today was the final episode of the King Farouk series. My mom and dad were in tears. When I asked my dad if he was aware of what was happening when the king left 50 years ago, he told me that all what he can remember is him crying so hard. “I found my mother crying her eyes out. I got scared and started to cry.”
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Farewell King Farouk
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Just one of Nasser’s crimes.
He betrayed his King and in doing so condemned his country to be a second-class dictatorship despite its great potential.
Comment by Andrew Brehm — October 16, 2007 @ 9:48 am
Hey the name of my country is present on NO BLOG. .
Although we are the number 1 polishers of American Boots these days . . .
Guess the name . PAKISTAN
Comment by Ali Abbas — October 16, 2007 @ 3:29 pm
I’ve been wondering since you first told us of this series what your father’s thoughts have been. Tell us more, please.
Comment by Solomon2 — October 16, 2007 @ 7:34 pm
I have tears in my eyes too. It is sad seeing a good King who loves his country and who are more patriotic are treated like nothing. Nasser and his revolution officers are the traitors and thieves who robbed Egyptians of their lives and money. They accused King Farouk of womanizer, thief, corrupted but he was not at all and in fact he gave his own money to the poor egyptians people and he is humble and kind hearted King. Egypt would have been better if the King is still around. There is no President after King Farouk who have done like he did giving charities, visit his workers at hospital himself and most important thing never let others use him as a puppet like the current President!
Comment by lulu — October 16, 2007 @ 9:05 pm
Nasser and all who came after him are thieves,they came poor and now their secound cousins are millioniers!!!!!!!!!!The KING is a KING.
GOD bless the KING,he wasn`t as they taught us in schools,everyone has his mistakes,but see what nasr and his followers did to egypt.see what they did to the egyption people.a visit to egypt will tell you everything.and mubark in position from 1980,27 years.and the KING who is the great great grandson of mohamed ali ruled 14 years.the people should do something.
Comment by hasan — October 16, 2007 @ 9:25 pm
So only now we remember that he wasn’t a bad king…wow too late for that now don’t ya think??? The shit hit the fan long ago, and he probably lost faith in his people(us) long before he passed away.
Comment by Egyptian Bob — October 17, 2007 @ 3:28 pm
I am Palestinian, and I grew up believing everything “great” about Nasser, I started reading about the regime, and I read about Farouk, and it makes me happy that he is being vindicated as a man who tried his best and had his flaws.
what really makes me happy is the quality of the work from the director, the writer and the lead actor( which I read is Syrian).
it’s makes proud to see such quality Arab work, and I am starting to watch the director’s other Historic work, and it’s amazing.
Comment by annous — October 18, 2007 @ 12:13 am
I think that your parents may have cried for King Farouk because they were crying for the Egypt that disappeared with him. Egypt, or at least Cairo, was a cosmopolitan place, very tolerant and culturally lively, with a scintillating nightlife. There were lots of foreigners there: Greeks, Armenians, Italians, French, and of course the British, especially British officers during the Second World War. Also a big Jewish community. These foreigners and upper-class Egyptians frequented the cinemas, theaters, clubs and cafes of Cairo, where a half a dozen languages could be heard at any one time, and would summer in Alexandria. But the foreign presence, and the colonial power that seemed to protect it, were so resented that when the colonels took over, it was only a matter of time before foreigners felt uncomfortable enough to leave. And they took their cinemas, cafes, clubs, restaurants, and tony private schools with them.
There is an interesting book about that time, called The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit. It’s by New York Times reporter Lucette Lagnado. It’s about her Syrian-born Jewish father, who was a man about town in cosmopolitan Cairo, and her mother, an Egyptian Jew from an elegant, upper-class family that was on the decline.
Don’t be put off by the fact that the book is about Jews. It’s not only about Jews, although the story about the Jewish family is interesting, too. It’s also about the old, glamourous Cairo of the 1930s and 1940s and how it went to pot.
Comment by Joanne — October 19, 2007 @ 12:14 am
My impression is that King Farouk was a corrupt and ineffectual leader, but also a benign and tolerant one.
I heard that he was, indeed, a womanizer, and liked to gamble. As for giving money to the poor. Well, I’m sure he made a big deal of some gifts to charity. So did Evita Peron. Big deal. He was not a reformist, and didn’t lose sleep over the fate of Egypt’s felaheen. He wasn’t a great statesman, from what I understand, but not a bad guy for all that. Nasser was no improvement.
Comment by Joanne, Brooklyn, New York — October 19, 2007 @ 12:19 am
F*ck Nasser and his dogs… they ruined our country.
Comment by EG — October 19, 2007 @ 1:09 pm
forget about King Farouk and his royal families plus all the Pashas, but ask yourself where is the treasures belong to all these royal families and Pasha that was taken from them by the revolution regime? why is that most of the revolution regime officers have the treasures and even auction it in London and became millionaires! who is more corrupted, lies and thieves? Nasser gave lands to the falaheen after confiscated lands from the rich people and companies built by the rich people who work hard to earn it. He didnt got it from his hardwork. he just took it and free of charge! Nasser should build Egypt and help the poor by educating them and help them! giving land only is not enough to help a nation! The same case happening in Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa! all dictator!
Comment by lulu — October 21, 2007 @ 1:46 am
where is the treasures belong to all these royal families and Pasha that was taken from them by the revolution regime? why is that most of the revolution regime officers have the treasures and even auction it in London and became millionaires!
Yes. King Farouk’s coin collection, for example, was one of the first items to hit the auction block. It popped back into the news a few years back when a U.S. gold coin illegal for Americans to possess was traced back to King Farouk. The Nasser regime was eager to get rid of such treasures because they were symbols of the monarchy. As for who collected the money from these sales - who knows?
Comment by Solomon2 — October 21, 2007 @ 2:30 am
just a reminder to everyone here, Farouk wasn’t Egyptian!
the “national” king was indulged in corruption to his marrow. they are all corrupt. our fate!
Comment by retinox is back — November 1, 2007 @ 12:05 am
i admit the Egypt is going thru the worst. do you know why? cuz we are the same before july revolution. injustice, unfair chances and corruption. it doesn’t take so long for those who were persecuted to be persecuters. do you remember George Orwell’s novel “the animal farm”?
Comment by retinox is back — November 1, 2007 @ 12:34 am
I am not sure how much of what was said about King Farouk was propaganda and how much was true. What I’m sure about is that the soldiers coup was one of the worst things that ever to
Egypt in all its history. But let us not forget another great victim of Nasser and his coup.
It’s Egypt forgotten president Mohamad Naguib. Google him and find out for yourself why the soldiers of the coup disposed of him when he wanted to bring back democracy and when he tried to let civilians take over the government.
Comment by Time keeper — November 12, 2007 @ 12:37 pm
the king was good
he left egypt with out
fighting the egyptians ,he didnt have royal guard to fight the revolutin ,i think because he was not afraid because he didnt steal the country ,he didnt done any thing to harm no body,
better for the egyptian to CALL back there king HAMED FOUAD
Comment by ELDI — November 14, 2007 @ 5:24 am
i just finished watching the last episode of King Farouk’s series, and it was the worst cause it again showed me the truth of Abdel Nasser and the rest of the coup leaders. It was obvious that they were tools of someone else, recalling the series of events that were actually communism vs. america. the king was simply the victim of the puppets who humiliated him for no fault he had commited. as the rest of the posts say, look at egypt now, i bet we all long for the past days when egypt was actually a power, not a substitute to anyone.
Comment by habib — November 18, 2007 @ 11:37 am
Yhanks you3d18ce
Comment by free mp3 music downloads — November 28, 2007 @ 10:39 am
by the way the goverment now these days is taking back again the lands that were given to falaheen after the revolution…and they are much much poor than before.GOD bless the king.
Comment by sonia — November 29, 2007 @ 8:01 pm
I was very symprthetic to the king farouk.really,I’ve started to read his history. I wish the next generations don’t take this bad idea about this great king like us.god bless the king.
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