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Egypt on the Threshold of Revolution In December 1945, Egyptian prime minister Mahmud Nuqrashi, sent a note to the British demanding that they renegotiate the 1936 treaty and evacuate British troops from the country. Britain refused. Riots and demonstrations by students and workers broke out in Cairo and Alexandria, accompanied by attacks on British property and personnel. The British Labour Party prime minister, Clement Atlee, agreed to remove British troops from Egyptian cities and bases by September 1949. The British had withdrawn their troops to the Suez Canal Zone when negotiations foundered over the issue of Sudan. In 1948 another event strengthened the Egyptian desire to rid the country of imperial domination. This event was the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel by David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv. The Arabs were defeated by Israel.
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GENERAL INFO Capital: Cairo Population: 83 milliion Languages: Arabic (official), French, English Religions: Muslim 90% Coptic 9% other Christian 1% Ethnicities: Egyptian 99.6% other 0.4% life expectancy: 72.12 years male: 69.56 female: 74.81 GDP per capita: $ 5400 43% urban ~1.8% rate of change literacy: total: 71.4% male: 83% female: 59.4% gov type: republic- a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by representatives chosen directly or indirectly by them current leaders: President Mohamed Hosni MUBARAK Prime Minister Ahmed Mohamed NAZIF exports: crude oil and petroleum products, cotton, textiles, metal products, chemicals to: Italy, US, Spain, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Germany, France imports: machinery and equipment, foodstuffs, chemicals, wood products, fuels from: US, China, Italy, Germany, Saudi Arabia
Arab Republic of EGYPT
