Memo to Colonel Nasser

The following memorandum by an itinerant scholar, on a previous effort to domesticate the Nile, may interest Egypt’s planners—and our readers

Present-day authors on planning are unfortunately prone to ascribe the glamor of originality to what is in reality merely a revival of a recurrent movement that has manifested itself at one point or another in almost every civilization and culture of which we have anything like a complete historical record.