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==Early life== Fuad was born in [[Giza Palace]] in [[Cairo]], the fifth issue of [[Isma'il Pasha of Egypt|Isma'il Pasha]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rosten |first=David B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7guCwAAQBAJ&dq=Prince+Adil+Tousson&pg=PT110 |title=The Last Cheetah of Egypt: A Narrative History of Egyptian Royalty from 1805 to 1953 |date=2015-12-03 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-1-4917-7939-2 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Morgan |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OpIgDQAAQBAJ&dq=Farial+Kadin&pg=PA456 |title=History of the Coptic Orthodox People and the Church of Egypt |date=2016-09-21 |publisher=FriesenPress |isbn=978-1-4602-8027-0 |page=456 |language=en}}</ref> He spent his childhood with his exiled father in [[Naples]]. He got his education from the military academy in [[Turin]], Italy. His mother was [[Ferial Qadin]].<ref name="Hassan2000">{{cite book |author=Hassan |first=Hassan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O0T5Yx6gyUgC&pg=PR9 |title=In the House of Muhammad Ali: A Family Album, 1805β1952 |publisher=American Univ. in Cairo Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-977-424-554-1 |page=9}}</ref> [[File:Fuad_I_in_1910.jpg|alt=Fuad_I_in_1910|thumb|Fuad in 1910]] Prior to becoming sultan, Fuad had played a major role in the establishment of [[Egyptian University]] (now called Cairo University). He became the university's first [[Rector (academia)|rector]] in 1908, and remained in the post until his resignation in 1913. He was succeeded as rector by then-minister of Justice [[Hussein Rushdi Pasha]]. In 1913, Fuad made unsuccessful attempts to secure the throne of [[Albania]] for himself, which had obtained its independence from the [[Ottoman Empire]] a year earlier. At the time, Egypt and Sudan was ruled by his nephew, [[Abbas II of Egypt|Abbas II]], and the likelihood of Fuad becoming the monarch in his own country seemed remote. This, and the fact that the Muhammad Ali dynasty was of Albanian descent, encouraged Fuad to seek the Albanian throne.<ref>{{cite book|last=Reid|first=Donald Malcolm |title=Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xA-l2axd-mEC&pg=PA61|series=Volume 23 of Cambridge Middle East Library|year=2002|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=978-0-521-89433-3 |oclc=49549849|pages=61β62}}</ref> Fuad also served as president of the [[Egyptian Geographic Society]] from 1915 until 1918.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.server2002.net/egs1/president.html |title=The Presidents of the Society |publisher=[[Egyptian Geographic Society]] |access-date=27 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724061011/http://www.server2002.net/egs1/president.html |archive-date=24 July 2011 }}</ref>
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