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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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HELIOPOLIS PHOTOS
Villa Chamas Bey
Villa Chamas Bey where King Farouk proposed to Queen Farida

Villa designed by H. Ayrout
Villa designed by Henri Ayrout the leading contractor of Heliopolis. His father designed the the town's Melchite church in 1910

Apartment Bldg looking on Basilique
pre-WW1 apartment building overlooking Basilique

Apartment Building on Avenue des Pyramides
apartment building on Avenue des Pyramides with statuette in center. Below: satuette next to split a/c

Statuette

Apartment Building on Avenue des Pyramides

Apartment Building on Rue Baghdad
examples of typical pre-WW1 Heliopolis buildings inspired by Moghul (Rajastan, India) architecture

Apartment Building

doomed building
doomed Building on Avenue Baron Empain


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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