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The Egyptian “Brain Drain”: A Multidimensional Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Nazih Ayubi
Nazih Ayubi
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University of Exeter, England
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Traditionally renowned for their dislike of settling outside their own country, the Egyptians started to become active emigrants in the early sixties. In noting this fact we do not, of course, mean to imply that Egyptian emigration has never taken place. There are reports that quite a few peasants emigrated from Egypt to the Levant to escape from Muhammad 'Ali's tyranny in the nineteenth century, while more recently, several thousand Egyptians emigrated around the period of the First World War to Iraq, Turkey, Greece, and France.

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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , November 1983 , pp. 431 - 450
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1983

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