Tahir Square palace of Princess Nemat Allah Tawfiq, the headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The palace was designed by the Italian Antonio Leciak (1856-1946), one of the most prominent architects who worked in Egypt. It was built mainly for the establishment of Princess Nematullah Tawfiq, who was born in 1881 and died in 1966 and was buried in southern France. She was the daughter of Khedive Tawfiq. Bin Ismail bin Muhammad Ali Pasha, whose father ruled Egypt from 1879 to 1892, and she was the sister of Khedive Abbas Helmy, who ruled the country from 1892 to 1914