What happened to Farouk's children is a story almost no one tells. One became a typing teacher hiding her identity. Another earned a pilot's licence and a ship captain's qualification before losing everything to illness. A third died so poor that the Egyptian government paid to fly her body home. And then there was the infant king — 6 months old when he was crowned, 18 months old when his throne ceased to exist. Where are they now? This is a researched documentary created for educational purposes.
The unit of land measurement spoken of in this video is feddan. It is a land measurement still quite widely used in Egypt. I had never heard of it, so I googled it. The following is what I learnt: A feddan (Arabic: فدان) is used primarily in agriculture. It is equivalent to 4,200.83 square meters, or 1,038 acres. That equates to 0.42 hectares. [Source: Google]
