 In the late 1940s , his latter school days included the Egyptian branch of Victoria College ( VC ) , where one classmate was Michel Shaloub ( later the actor Omar Sharif ) whom he remembered as a sadistic and physically abusive Head Boy ; other classmates included King Hussein of Jordan , and Egyptian , Syrian , Jordanian , and Saudi Arabian boys whose academic careers progressed to their becoming ministers , prime ministers , and leading businessmen in their respective countries . In that colonial time , the VC school educated a selection of Arab and Levantine young men to become the Anglicized ruling @-@ class who , in due course of their careers , were to rule their respective countries , upon British decolonization . VC would be the last school Edward Said attended before being sent to school in the U.S. : 
