Dam, the company was in charge of building a new community for the Nubian people whose villages lay in the area that was later to become Lake Nasser. In 1961, the company was nationalized under President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s new socialist policies to become Nasr General Contracting - Hassan Mohammed Allam with Hassan Allam losing ownership and becoming its general manager. In 1975, taking advantage of the Infitah or open-door policies adopted by President Anwar el-Sadat’s government, he established his second company - Hassan Allam Sons. Shortly after, the new company submitted a bid for building a large sewage network in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. However Hassan Allam did not live to see the result of the bid. His funeral was held at the Omar Makram Mosque in Tahrir Square and was attended by thousands of mourners. The crowd extended from the mosque almost up to the Ramesses Hilton. There are currently two streets named after Hassan Allam; one in the Heliopolis district and the other in Downtown Cairo. References 1903 births 1976 deaths 20th-century Egyptian businesspeople People from Port Said