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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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MEMORIALS FOR DEAD HEROES
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ITALIAN WAR MEMORIAL AT EL ALAMEIN
PART I

Italian Memorial at El Alamein
Italian Memorial at El Alamein designed by Count Paolo Caccia Dominioni

name palques of fallen soldiers

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Caccia Dominioni statue

Count Paolo Caccia Dominioni (Nerviano, Lombardia 1896 - Rome 1992) was the son of Italian diplomat Carlo Dominioni who served in Alexandria and Ports Said before retiring in 1927.
Dominioni son is best remembered in Egypt for his Italian mausoleum of El Alamein inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Gugenhiem Museum in New York.
Dominioni spent a good part of his professional life in Egypt. Towards the end of his Egypt career he set up office on Soliman Pasha Street's Cinema Metro Building together with Victor Salama and Gaston Rossi.
Dominioni was a nephew of a Cardinal-Secretary to Pope Pius XI. He received a papal title of count. He was also a reserve colonel in the Italian army during the Ethiopia campaign and later in WW2. He married late in his life. On 20 October 2002 at El Alamein, Dominioni's widow received the highest Italian decoration from Italy's president Campi.

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Aswan builders
plaque honoring Italians who took part in the building of the Aswan, Esna and Edfina reservoirs

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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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