Victoria College: The making of kings, princes, and celebrities

This book narrates the biography and history of Victoria School in Alexandria over 111 years, including incidents, stories, and secrets about kings, princes, and celebrities who studied there, such as King Hussein bin Talal, the King of Greece, the King of Albania, the King of Bulgaria, and Sadiq al-Mahdi, as well as prominent Arab artists like Omar Sharif, Ahmed Ramzy, Youssef Shahine, and Shadi Abdel Salam, and writers and thinkers such as Edward Said and Sir Michael Atiyah. The book includes interviews with "Old Victorians" who kept secrets about life inside the walls of that British fortress, which was sometimes used for espionage against major families in the Arab world and Africa, about its strict laws and methods of punishment, and how that school transformed and declined after its nationalization, becoming a symbol of the peak of liberal values. At the same time, it presents a sad and tragic scene of the decline of those values and principles of modernization in the Arab world.