[2][3][4] Prince Amr Ibrahim was the husband of Necla Sultan, granddaughter of Ottoman ruler Mehmed VI, also known as Vahideddin.

[16] From 1971 the building was employed by the Ministry of Culture as an exhibition gallery for paintings endowed by former Prime Minister Mohammed Mahmoud Khalil.

[20] The former dining room, now housing the collection of ceramics from the Fatimid era also contains precious carved wooden furniture with mother of pearl inlays.

[19] The upper floor display is organized in the galery around the dome for Iranian collections and other rare pieces of miscelanous origin, such as Tunisian Qallaline ceramic tiles.

The first floor consisted of a private bathroom for the Prince with a cold and warm water szstem imported from Italy, a small appartment now housing 12th & 13th century Syrian ceramics from Raqqa, and a changing room with an entire wall closet closed by woden pannels decorated with mother of pearl inlays.