The rugged Sinai peninsula joins Egypt with the Levant and Arabia, while the Nile River basin connects it

with sub-Saharan Africa. In an essay on Egypt's destiny, President Gamal Abdel Nasser pointed out that

his country is influential in three worlds. The first is that of the Arab nations; the second, the larger world of

the African continent; and the third and broadest, the world of Islam. Modern Egypt has played a pivotal role in all three of

these areas and the influence of ancient Egypt was also felt far beyond its borders.

The lower Nile basin was one of the cradles of civilization. Modern Egyptians recall with pride the Pharaonic civilization

whose monuments in "eternal stone" still project its ancient grandeur. Since the deserts on either side of the Nile basin have

provided no effective barrier to foreign invasion, Egypt has been overrun by many conquerors and has belonged to many of

the world's fabled empires. For nearly a thousand years it was incorporated in the Greco-Roma

Because of heavy population densities people are collected in large settlements. More than one-third of the people live in

Egypt and reducing its acute financial dependence on Europe. A new pressure group, the Egyptian Federation of Industries,

country. In league with private capital, the state created a new iron- and steelworks and many other large-scale industrial

today are Arabic-speaking Muslims.

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