Saffron Palace
The Saffron Palace () is located in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, near Abbassia at Khalifa Maʽmon Road. Now it is inside the main campus of the Ain Shams University. History. The Saffron Palace was an Egyptian royal palace. Farouk of Egypt is said to have been born in it. The three-storey palace, designed by the French-educated Egyptian architect Moghri bey Saad, was built during the regime of Isma'il Pasha. It received its name from the saffron plantations which then existed around the palace. The palace held the administration offices of the Egyptian University at the establishment  of the university in 1925. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also lodged important visitors at the palace. The Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936 was signed in the palace and, in March of 1945, the Arab League was founded there. In 1952, the palace became the administrative headquarters of Ain Shams University, which it remains to the present day.