Mahmoud Siddiq - Cairo

Farouk I, Egypt's last king before the July 1952 revolution, may not have known for sure that he had categorically rejected an offer by the United States to buy the Sinai Peninsula to settle the Palestinian refugees who had been displaced from their homes after the 1948 Nakba.

Farouk, who is currently on his death, rejected any discussion about Sinai from the very beginning, in the context of the American political project, Gordon Clap, in order to find a solution to the Palestinian issue and those expelled from their land occupied by Israel.

In 1950, the United States offered Egypt to buy Sinai. The offer - presented by the Harry Truman administration to King Farouk - included the acquisition of Sinai to settle the Palestinian refugees who left their homes after the 1948 war.

Recently, there has been talk of settling Palestinian refugees in the Sinai, in the framework of what is known as the "deal of the century", which press reports say is aimed at eliminating the Palestinian cause by making Jerusalem the capital of Israel and denying the refugees' right of return.

Hayat Farouk - born on February 11, 1920, 91 years before Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down from office - was filled with strange and provocative events, paradoxes and many rumors and fabrications.

But his fans say that it was a "demonization" of the monarchy, and that Farouk proved his patriotism by refusing to cling to power when he gave up the rule to his young son Ahmed Fouad, and that his reign was the best politically and the strongest economically.

Farouk - who was the last king of Egypt - lived a life of extravagance and died of obscurity, and they said he was a "women's minister", while others said he sought to be a successor to the Muslims.

weird
Ahmed Murtada al-Maraghi, the interior minister of Farouk, is surprised by the strangeness of the king's stages. He speaks only to his mother, Queen Nazli, and his three teachers: English, French and Italian. His father, King Fouad I, refused to send him to any school so as not to mix with the Egyptians, And brought him teachers inside the palace.

In his book "Strangeness from the era of King Farouk and the beginning of the Egyptian revolution," Al-Maraghi pointed out that depriving Farouk of the children's relationship and his father's preoccupation with the affairs of the Egyptian kingdom and his vision of his mother are striking;

Al-Maraghi stressed in his book that despite Farouk's reckless behavior with his teachers, he was very polite with senior men of the state and very respectful of his mother, and sat only if she sat down.

Farouk, according to the book, believes that he has the right to do what pleases his lust publicly and secretly, and that the head of his royal court, Ahmed Hassanein Pasha, arranged for him to go to the car club to play the facilitator and to the Opera in Helwan to play with the women. State and be in his hand.

The author asserts that Farouk was not a "women's minister" in the real sense, but pretended to make up for a lack of masculinity, where he performed two surgeries to repair a sexual defect.

tough times
Despite the reckless life in which Farouk set himself up, he went through turns in his life shaking him, and introduced him in another phase as he did on 4 February 1942.

Following the resignation of Hussein's government, the British ambassador in Cairo asked the king to summon the leader of the Wafd party Mustafa al-Nahhas to form the new ministry in his capacity as the majority leader to contain anti-British demonstrations shouting the German commander who arrived at El Alamein inside the western border: .

After the king's delay in acceptance, and his rejection of warning from the embassy, ​​the English tanks surrounded the palace, and the king's choice between accepting copper or signing a document waiver of the throne, was finally forced to bow.

The incident shook Farouk Haza violent, and decided to get closer to the Islamic currents, and religious azimuth; he launched his beard, and was seen praying in mosques among the people, and intensified his attention to Islamic issues, and the dream of the unification of Islamic countries and his installation as a successor to Muslims.

The sympathy of the people with Farouk was very much after the incident, in return for the decline of the popularity of the Wafd Party to accept the premiership over the British bayonets, and even reached the words of Hassanein Heikal in an article entitled "The first military coup in Egyptian politics" The ministry's headquarters were carried by British Ambassador to Egypt Miles Lampson.

The second incident that rocked Farouk was two years before the first, and was the collision of the King's car, which was given to him by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in 1938 by an English military trailer in the Qasasin area near Ismailia.

The accident happened to kill him and he was transferred to the engineering facilities camp where the incident took place. After the English doctor left, he told the people around him that I did not want any of them. The car took him to the military hospital to find a fracture in the pelvic bone.

Farouk refused to show one of the British surgeons the operation, preferring to wait for the Egyptian surgeon Ali Ibrahim Pasha, who came by plane from Cairo. Farouk was happy despite his pain - according to the testimonies of those who were with him today - the scene of speeding Egyptian officers and soldiers stationed in the area to brief the hospital on their own To guard him, as well as crawling the masses - according to several accounts - as soon as she knew the incident to the hospital and took them throughout the residence of the king.

Leave Egypt
Farouk continued to rule Egypt until he was overthrown by the Free Officers' Organization, which revolutionized July 23, 1952, when he was forced to abdicate his son Ahmed Fuad, who was in his first year at the time. From ownership to republic.

Farouk chose to live in the Italian capital of Rome, moving from there to other European countries, such as France and Switzerland, until he passed away.

Mysterious death
At 1:30 pm on March 18, 1965, the last king of Egypt was declared dead after eating a lavish dinner at the famous restaurant "Ile de France" in Rome. It was said that he was assassinated by a poisoned glass in a glass of juice by Ibrahim al-Baghdadi, But Italian doctors have decided that Farouk's obesity, his suffering from high blood pressure, and narrow arteries are the cause of death.

It was said that that night he ate "a dozen" oysters, a quantity of shrimp, two slices of veal, with French fries, and a large quantity of cakes stuffed with jam and fruit. His family refused to autopsy the body of the king, confirming the doctors' words that he died of obscurity, leaving the door to explanations about the causes of his death forever open.

Intolerance before the commandment
Farouk was ordered to be buried in al-Rifai mosque next to his father and grandfather. However, President Gamal Abdel Nasser rejected this request, but with the mediation of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia and Farouk's brother-in-law, former Minister of War Ismail Sherin, was secretly buried. Imam Shafi'i contrary to his command, until the President Anwar Sadat, and before the request of his family to carry out his will, and transferred to the mosque Rifai next to his father and grandfather.