INTA 2XXX Lecture : Egypt.docx
18 Feb 2013
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Water: red sea, nile river, mediterranean sea. 3200 bc: upper and lower egypt united politically for the first tim. 341 bc: persians take over later replaced by byzantines, greeks, romans. 7th century: arabs introduce islam, rule for 6 centuries. 1882: british control begins to protect investments when egypt fell into debt. 1952 july 23: egyptian revolution overthrew british and established republic. President: muhammad mursi (june 30 2012: 2 four year terms. Parliament: bicameral: advisory council and people"s assembly. Constitution of the arab republic: signed on dec. 26 2012, stronger parliament. Not a nato member but maintains strong ties with nato member states. Domestic: recent revolution, mubarak resigned in feb. 2011, current disputes continue. Fighting over halaib region north of 22nd parallel boundary: vs. saudi arabia. Fighting over tiran and sanafir: difficulty with monitoring sinai border. Egypt"s president recently got in trouble with anti-semitic remarks could hurt ties with the us and egypt.
