
THE MYTH OF THE MONOLITH 87
tract in the face of a public outcry against the resort project. The
foreign investor sued both the Egyptian government and EGOTH
in arbitration. Throughout the litigation, which languished for fif-
teen years in various tribunals and courts, the Egyptian govern-
ment argued that the minister had not signed as a party to the
contract but only as the supervising authority over the hotel corpo-
ration: he was merely approving the hotel organization’s partici-
pation in the deal. Had the original contract made it clear that the
Egyptian government was a party to the contract, the government
would not have had a basis for resisting ...