Diaries of an Egyptian Princess

Diaries of an Egyptian Princess
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Publisher : Zeitouna
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ISBN-10 : 9775864232
ISBN-13 : 9789775864239
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Book Synopsis Diaries of an Egyptian Princess by : Nevine Abbas Halim

Download or read book Diaries of an Egyptian Princess written by Nevine Abbas Halim and published by Zeitouna. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glamour and glitter of the lives of Egypt's royal family Princess Nevine Halim is a direct descendant of the royal family that ruled Egypt from 1805 until the abdication of King Farouk in the wake of the Free Officers coup in 1952. The eldest of three children, she was born in Alexandria on 30 June 1930, the great-great-granddaughter of Muhammad Ali Pasha on her father's side and the great-granddaughter of Khedive Ismail on her mother's side. Drawing on her own diary, as well as those of her mother and grandmother, she takes us on a journey from the First to the Second World War, from Egypt to Europe and the United States, from a world of glamour, wealth, and privilege to the fugitive existence of the exile and social outcast after 1952. We also meet her father, Abbas Halim, the charming rebel prince who clashed with King Fuad for championing the rights of workers, as well as many other members of the Egyptian royal family and a glittering host of international royals, politicians, and film stars. Packed with royal gossip and political intrigue, with tales of young love and fashionable society, and of princes and princesses dancing perilously close to the edge of a way of life that would one day fall apart and then vanish, Diaries of an Egyptian Princess is an event-filled account of an endlessly fascinating epoch in modern Egyptian history.


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