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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 !!!

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M EMORIALS F OR D EAD HEROES
PHOTO GALLERY

MAIN PLAYERS IN El ALAMEIN WAR THEATRE: Auchinleck, Montgomery, Rommel, Freyberg

Sir Claude Auchinleck Montgomery, Lord of Alamein Erwin Rommel, the desert fox Freyberg

COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES AT ALAMEIN

cloister facade with inscription
inscription on cloister facade

British Memorial Plaque
British Memorial Plaque

tombstones
Commonwealth War Graves with cloisters in background

fallen muslim
fallen Commonwealth Muslim soldier

architect's plaque

Commonwealth Grave namelist
list of names engraved on cloister wall.

60th Aniversary Battle of Alamein - October 2002

Australian Governor General
Australian governor-general Right Reverend Dr Peter Hollingworth (above) his aide de camp (below) laying wreaths

Australian aide de camp laying wreath

Australian delegation
Australian delegation

Scot veteran
Highlander paying tribute to his fallen comrades

Rands from South Africa
South African Rands

Foreign Legion honor guard
Foreign Legion honor guard

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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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