For those bent on destruction and demolition, why don't they redirect their efforts on Zamalek's Borg Hotel, a symbol of everything that is indecent and ugly. And once this eyesore is amputated, they can move on to the other side of the Gezira Sporting Club and start chipping away at the last 20 floors of that circular obscenity on Hassan Sabry Street.

How and why this tower came to be remains a puzzle! Silence of the Lambs is what it is, for we all know that Zamalek abounds with ministers, legislators, generals, governors, government planners, judges, trend-setters, go-getters, etc. Where were they when this garage-less alcazar went up inch by inch, floor by floor, reaching for the sky flouting Newton's theory of gravity and ignoring the laws of the land and those of common sense and decency.

How will they all feel when a fire breaks out on the 43rd floor and tourists are Bar-B-Q'd alive or when a 5.9 Richter scale earthquake creates untold havoc and the building starts heaving?

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