Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "محمود سامي البارودي" in Arabic language version.
Although he was dressed like an Englishman, and on deck wore a straw hat with the word "Scott inside it, he soon let them know that his name was Mahmoud Baroudi, that his native place was Alexandria, that he was of mixed Greek and Egyptian blood, and that he was a man of great energy and will, interested in many schemes, pulling the strings of many enterprises. … Baroudi 's father was a rich Turco-Egyptian. His mother had been a beautiful Greek girl, who had embraced Islam when his father fell in love with her and proposed to marry her.