By Fouad N. Ibrahim
Egypt is nearly the dimensions of england, France, and Germany mixed, but its approximately 70 million everyone is compelled by way of geography to stay in a space no larger than Belgium. during this illuminating creation to financial geography, the authors describe the myriad difficulties dealing with Egypt. They learn meals shortage, the results of water and land scarcity, the impression of globalization on Egypt's makes an attempt to industrialize, inhabitants explosion, monstrous debt, unemployment, corruption, and Egypt's tourism undefined.
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The appointment of a few Coptic members of parliament and one or two ministers, usually in insignificant ministries, by the President of the state serves merely as a sop to show that there is no discrimination. This also applies in the case of the candidateship of Botros Ghali for the post of UN Secretary-General in the 1990s, when the government actively made use of international recognition of his expertise in order to promote an Egyptian candidate. The people of Egypt · 27 4 The Nubians – a people without a homeland Nubia was once a mighty kingdom and a country of a high culture.
After the armed border conflict between Egypt and the Sudan about the Halayeb area on the Red Sea, which broke out after mineral resources had been discovered there in the 1990s, Egypt started building schools, hospitals and roads for the Bishariyiin population there. However, the old reciprocal animosity between the Bedouin and the rest of the The people of Egypt · 29 Egyptian population still exists, and the ’arab are not recognized as Egyptians by the people of the Nile valley, while many Bedouin who have relations across the political borders have never really developed a strong sense of belonging to Egypt.
On the other hand the fast-growing tourist industry in the governorates of South Sinai, Red Sea and Marsa Matruh has been attracting migrant labourers and caused a growth in the population there of about 58 per cent in the ten years between 1986 and 1996. However, the total population of these three governorates amounted to only 424,000 persons in 1996. The only governorate of Upper Egypt that was able to strike a balance between emigration and immigration was Aswan, by virtue of the construction of the High Dam and subsequent industrial development as well as flourishing tourism through which jobs were created.