Are Egyptians arabs? if not what are they?

Answer 1

Depends on your definition. Are all native English speakers English? If you would say yes then all native Arabic speakers are Arabs. Even using this definition not all Egyptians would be Arabs because some still have Coptic as a native language, but most would be. Since Egypt has been around for thousands of years, there has been inter-mixtures from migration and invading forces over the millennium. This is also true for most countries, and your question is impossible to answer unless you first set up criteria for categorizing peoples or nations. Do you use religion, language, culture, genetics, geographical location, history, etc or combination of these?

Answer 2

Egyptians are not Arabs they are Egyptian, many Arab people are married to Egyptians over the years as are the Israelis, but an Egyptian is proud of his heritage it is way older and more sophisticated than the Arab so they resent being called Arabic. Unless they are an Arab that migrated to Egypt. Nassur was the one who joined the United Arab Republic at the end to supply himself a defense system from Russia, but Sadat when he became president made it very clear he was not an Arab and that he was an Egyptian and his country was Egypt and did not belong to the Arab Republic in that way. This is the major reason he was assassinated by the Arabs, they wanted to take over Egypt just like they want Israel and America etc., it is appalling the way we allow them to act just like Hitler did when he was infiltrating and taking over that is the activity of a tyranical maniac society. Egyptian heritage does not include the Qaran, their religious beliefs and culture is ancient and many are Christian. And many are still believers in their older traditions including religion of the G-D Horus, and Amun Ra, and Osiris.

Answer 3

Egyptians are Egyptians. Arabs are from Arabia. Egyptians and Arabs have mixed throughout the ages but there are genetic differences. Would you call a Jew and Arab? They have similar genetic background also.

Answer 4

the modern day inhabitants of egypt are of the arab stock and speak the egyptian dialect of arabic. the original egyptians; i.e. the pharaohs, were of hamitic stock and spoke a language of that family. through intercultural relations with various peoples like the greeks, romans, arabs, and perhaps the minoans to a lesser extant, the egyptians have lost their true identity though many surely could trace their blood lineage back to pharaonic times.

Answer 5

By definition, Arabs are the inhabitant of the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Yemen, Kuwait, U.A.E).
So... Egyptians, Libyans, Mauritanians, Algerians, Syrians, Lebanese etc...are not Arabs.

Even though their official language is Arabic, ethnically speaking they are not Arabs, they are Arabophones.

Answer 6

Are Iranians Arabs?>>>no, they are Persians...are Lebanese Arabs?>>>no, they Phoenicians...are Tunisians Arabs>>>no, they are Phoenicians (Puns,from old Carthage)...Are Egyptians Arabs>>>no, they are Egyptians.

The thing that these cultures have in common is the Islamic religion.

Answer 7

The northern Africa (which include the sahara desert, morocco and of course Egypt) are the light skinned Arabs ( when the Africans mixed with the Europeans)
If you go into the ancient times, Egyptians were mainly Africans

Answer 8

Egyptians are Arabs. They identify themselves as Arabs, they speak Arabic, and they are famous for their poetry and fine literary works.

Answer 9

Arabs, name given to the ancient and present-day inhabitants of the Arabian Peninsula and often applied to the peoples closely allied to them in ancestry, language, religion, and culture. Presently more than 200 million Arabs are living mainly in 21 countries; they constitute the overwhelming majority of the population in Saudi Arabia, Syria, Yemen, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and the nations of North Africa. The Arabic language is the main symbol of cultural unity among these people, but the religion of Islam provides another common bond for the majority of Arabs. Language and religion are united in the Qur'an (Koran), the sacred scripture of Islam.

Answer 10

They're not "arabs" in the absolute sense. Arabs are one of several ethnicities in Egypt.

That's like asking are all Americans "white"? The answer is an obvious "no".