Is Egypt an African or middle country?

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Annt Hu DeShalit

I have recently found some interesting information, which touches on the subject of your question.

After the 1948 war, Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip and its more than 200,000 inhabitants, but refused to allow the Palestinians into Egypt or permit them to move elsewhere.

Although demographic figures indicated ample room for settlement existed in Syria, Damascus refused to consider accepting any refugees, except those who might refuse repatriation. Syria also declined to resettle 85,000 refugees in 1952-54, though it had been offered international funds to pay for the project. Iraq was also expected to accept a large number of refugees, but proved unwilling. Lebanon insisted it had no room for the Palestinians. In 1950, the UN tried to resettle 150,000 refugees from Gaza in Libya, but was rebuffed by Egypt.

Jordan was the only Arab country to welcome the Palestinians and grant them citizenship (to this day Jordan is the only Arab country where Palestinians as a group can become citizens). King Abdullah considered the Palestinian Arabs and Jordanians one people. By 1950, he annexed the West Bank and forbade the use of the term Palestine in official documents.

In 1952, the UNRWA set up a fund of $200 million to provide homes and jobs for the refugees, but it went untouched.

The plight of the refugees remained unchanged after the Suez War. In fact, even the rhetoric stayed the same. In 1957, the Refugee Conference at Homs, Syria, passed a resolution stating:
"Any discussion aimed at a solution of the Palestine problem which will not be based on ensuring the refugees' right to annihilate Israel will be regarded as a desecration of the Arab people and an act of treason" (Beirut al Massa, July 15, 1957).

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Ather De Egyptien

Demographically Speaking Egypt Is African

Culturally Speaking Egypt Is Part Of The Middle East

Personally I Don't Consider Myself Middle Eastern But An African

Rokaya

african by location, middle eastern from culture view

Jim

African -they play in the African Nations Cup whereas most Middle East countries play in the Asian equivalent with the exception of Israel and Turkey who play in Europe.

Ryan82

Egypt is definitely an African country.

The Middle East is a region not a continent like Africa. The Middle East overlaps on multiple continents and is defined by language, culture, religion and a handful of other factors.

Egypt would be considered part of the Arab world and part of the Middle East, but it is still in Africa.

milton b

Geographically Egypt is in Africa, culturally it is part of the middle east.

samy n

it is middle whole egypt in africa sina in asia

lord-k

two

Seagull

African

yabadabbadoo069

North African...part of the middle east.

1944man

African.

Mona

geograpically, it's in africa. culturally, it's european/middle eastern/western

Egypt is pure 100% African but because of 2000 years of interracial marriage and cultural mix with the Arabs and the spanish it now has the face of an Arab country.

pagie83

Africa

Eileen J

I think its African but I really don't know for sure

Moonrise

Egypt is located in the north east Africa .
it looks onto the Mediterranean and the Red Sea .
its culture in Middle Eastern .
the population is mostly light brown very much like the Italians .

a_phantoms_rose

Egypt is like America in many ways. It is a melting pot of many cultures and religions. It is in the African continent, but the language is Arabic and the culture is African, Ancient Egyptian, and Arabic. But Egyptian Arabic language is different in many ways from the Arabic spoken in the other Middle Eastern countries.

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