This is precisely the reason many of these huge projects are built. The Gulf countries have been and are still doing them (KAUST, KAEC, KAFD, huge mosque expans

This is precisely the reason many of these huge projects are built. The Gulf countries have been and are still doing them (KAUST, KAEC, KAFD, huge mosque expansions, etc.) with a huge number of contracts going to Saudi Oger or the Binladin group. These contracts are rarely even negotiated properly. The difference here is that Egypt can hardly afford this so they have to blag the money off of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.