King Farouk's book is a testimony to history by Dr. Hossein Hosny, the personal secretary of King Farouk Kuttab, written by Dr. Hussein Hosni, the personal secretary of King Farouk, who sheds light on other aspects of the young king's life and the political situation of his time. The book is not a compilation of the king but it is an objective presentation of a respected figure King Farouk is a testimony to history
The author returned to Egypt in 1923 with a doctorate in history on the Suez Canal from the University of Montpellier, France. He worked in schools and then in the archives of the Royal Palace. He was appointed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1952 and then transferred to the Royal Palace to work with the Chief Custodian since June 1930, during the reign of the King Fouad. And remained in the royal palace until King Farouk abdicated in 1952. He is then an eyewitness to what is going on in the royal palace for a period of twenty-two years, including the period of King Farouk from 1937 to 1952, and in this last period was the secretary Of the king, and during which it was blessed with Bakwiya and then Bashawi. The memoirs were written or completed in 1985. This long period of his presence in the royal palace is connected to the king, making it a treasure of history's treasures, in terms of facts, events and portrayals of the king. Which is to commit himself as mentioned in the beginning of his writing only tells as a witness to what happened under the sense of events, he saw with his eyes or heard with his ears .. He puts a book is a historical source and not history itself. And in this he was gracious and faithful. He has committed himself to the book. In the midst of what was published and published about King Farouk and the policies of the royal palace, and his life of disadvantages and disadvantages, these notes come to reveal to the reader that the royal palace in that era, not all his men such as Ahmed Hassanein, and not like Karim Thabet and Adly Andrews, The likes of Shamasharjiah and Antoine Bolly and others, but there were patriotic men and scholars and scientists were few and did not have effective influence, but they were present and maintained their purity until the end
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