Yes! Few recall the disaster that was the Aswan dam during the pan-Arab self-sustaining b.s. of Nasser and al-Quwatli. Aswan dam was nothing more than an egotist's grand monument to his over-inflated self-assessment. It would have been monumentally preferable had the narcissist commissioned 50-Giza sized pyramids to himself and his progeny than his "modernizing" Egypt.