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Faris Nimr, founder of the newspaper al-Miiqattam, flourished under Cromer, and became the father-in-law of George Antonius, author of The Arab Awakening and critic of Western imperialism. Another of the Lebanese Christian editors in Cairo was Yaqub Sarruf, uncle of Dr Fuad Sarruf who is today one of the Vice-Presidents of the American University of Beirut.
http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/viewtext/2573358?op=t&n=5596
The country we know as ‘Egypt’ was known as:
United Arab Republic
United Arab Republic, political union (1958–61) of Egypt and Syria. The capital was Cairo. The two countries were merged (1958) into a single unit comprising the Southern (Egypt) and the Northern (Syria) Regions, with Gamal Abdal Nasser as president. As an initial step toward creating a pan-Arab union, the republic abolished Syrian and Egyptian citizenship, termed its inhabitants Arabs, and called the country “Arab territory.” It considered the Arab homeland to be the entire area between the Persian Gulf and the Atlantic coast. With Yemen (North Yemen), it formed (1958) a loose federation called the United Arab States. In 1961, Syria withdrew from the union after a military coup, and Yemen soon followed, thus ending the union. Egypt continued to use the name until 1971.
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There was apparently a book published similar to WHO IS WHO which showed the relative of the famous baby-sitter as a student at the UAR University in Cairo. Any assistance in locating this reference would be appreciated.