Notes on Modern Egypt 3/4/11

Modern Egypt

• tourism
• agricultue
• cotton
• Cairo is a metropolitan area, big tourist site
• like New York
• Dam controls the floofing of the Nile
• * Akhet, Peret, Shomu *
• 79 million people - biggest population of Middle East
• Official language - Arabic
• Relgion- 90% Muslim, most of the rest are Christian
• major conflicts (12th worst in religious violence, and 5th worst for religious freedom)
• recenly had a revolution - Hosni Mubarak  was kicked out of office, in 2011. (this year)
• * Gamal Nasser, Anwar Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak *
• Sadat made alliance with US - was killed by his own people by a radical hate group
• Gamal made alliances with the Soviet Union
• Now ruled by a military junta, military is running things.
• elections will be held in 6 months
• Lybia *