second class and the order of al-Majidi from the khedive. He bought around 900 feddans around Qena and died in December 1925.

Makram Ebeid was born William Makram Ebeid, one of eleven children. His first name, "William", was later dropped due political concerns with the British protectorate in Egypt. He was noted as one of the brightest of the family. He went to primary school at a government school in Qena around 1900 alongside the famous writer Abbas Mahmoud al-Aqqad. He then studied at