Egypt in World War II
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Egypt was a major battlefield in the North African campaign during the Second World War, being the location of the First and Second Battles of El Alamein. Legally an independent kingdom since 1922, an
World War II affected many lives in Egypt. Commonwealth graves of victims shown here in Marsa Matrouh, Egypt
Saad Zaghloul Pasha with members of Al Wafd party.
Anti-Nazi poster used in Egypt: the text reads "My Struggle, by Adolf Hitler, the Sculptor", and depicts a bloody swastika and dead civilians.
British troops at Abdeen Palace
Farouk of Egypt
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Farouk I was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936 and reigning until his overthrow in a milita
Egypt in World War II
…Kingdom during the war (the latter in conjunction with the Soviet Union), Egypt experienced the Abdeen Palace Incident, a confrontation between Egypt's King Farouk and the British military in 1942, the results of which would contribute directly to the Egyptian revolution of 1952 a decade later. For most of the…
Official portrait, 1946
Farouk I, c. 1937
Farouk saluting Egyptian citizens assembled in Abdeen Square in Cairo, c. 1937
Coin issuance after Farouk's coronation, 1937