Feb 18, 2012 | Al-Ahram Weekly Online
Heritage: Snappy new museum for Kom Ombo
Egypt's first ever crocodile museum has opened in the Upper Egyptian town of Kom Ombo.
Style on the Nile: Why this is the ideal time - and perfect way - to discover Egypt
His full title was 'His Majesty Farouk I, by the grace of God, King of Egypt and of Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, of Kordofan and of Darfur'. Succeeding his father, Fuad I, to the throne, aged just 16, in 1936, he later gallivanted around Europe's nightclubs, casinos and restaurants, consorting with the continent's fastest women.