Egypt vs. Arabs
Although that this has been one of the most complicated controversial discussions lately in Egypt, but there are a big some of Egyptians (including me) who would claim the difference between the Egyptian race and the Arab one. There are different points that make a good basis for such claim, mainly because Egypt and Arab states has different history, background and culture.
Even Egyptians who are claiming against that, back in their minds they believe that we are not Arabs; for example when we meet some Egyptian Bedouins (who are supposed to be Egyptians just because they are living in Egypt) we call them "Arabs"!!
The people who would base their counter-claim upon the fact that Egypt's official name is "Arab Republic of Egypt", would better know that at the time that this name was given to Egypt, was Nasser's time, who was aiming at convincing the Arabs and middle-easterns in general to choose him as their leader (who to an extent succeeded in that) but it was only for political reasons and no more, and later on when Sadat (the former president) made the peace treaty with Israel which resulted in kicking Egypt out of Arab League (which was created by Egypt), he made some comments against Arab like (el-3arab garab wel masreyeen fara3na) which I would never translate to English, but anyway, means that we are different than the Arabs.
Even Egyptians who are claiming against that, back in their minds they believe that we are not Arabs; for example when we meet some Egyptian Bedouins (who are supposed to be Egyptians just because they are living in Egypt) we call them "Arabs"!!
The people who would base their counter-claim upon the fact that Egypt's official name is "Arab Republic of Egypt", would better know that at the time that this name was given to Egypt, was Nasser's time, who was aiming at convincing the Arabs and middle-easterns in general to choose him as their leader (who to an extent succeeded in that) but it was only for political reasons and no more, and later on when Sadat (the former president) made the peace treaty with Israel which resulted in kicking Egypt out of Arab League (which was created by Egypt), he made some comments against Arab like (el-3arab garab wel masreyeen fara3na) which I would never translate to English, but anyway, means that we are different than the Arabs.
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