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Several of my articles on Garden City were plagiarized word for word by novelist MEKKAWI SAID (winner of the Egyptian State price for literature!!!!) and re-published under his own name in a three-part series in El-Masry El-Youm daily in September 2015.

Cheers to our "talented" literature prize awardee. Your pain his gain !!!

EGY.COM  -  GARDEN CITY

EGYPTIAN FOREIGN AFFAIRS PALACE
donated to the state in 1935 by Princess Nimetallah Tewfik

Entrance
main hall seen from entrance

entrance
main hall seen from marble escalier d'honneur

main salon
main hall seen from above

Abbas Hilmi
inter-connected salons - first floor

main salon
main salon - first floor

Abbas Hilmi
quasi original Aubusson ante-chamber - first floor

Abbas Hilmi
marble escalier d'honneur leading to second floor

entrance
life-size oil painting of King Fouad - salon second floor

Kamal El Dine Salah
bronze bust of slain Egyptian diplomat Kamal el Dine Salah - landing escalier d'honneur with reflecting mirror

photo session of palace restoration by kind permission of Mrs. Laila Abou El Gheit


articles posted on egy.com were published in the following books by Samir W Raafat: THE EGYPTIAN BOURSE, Zeitouna, Cairo -- CAIRO THE GLORY YEARS, Harpocrates, Alexandria -- HISTORY & SOCIETY IN A CAIRO SUBURB; MAADI 1904-1962, Palm Press, Cairo -- PRIVILEGED FOR THREE CENTURIES, printed digitally and bound by Elias Printing, Egypt

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