Despite the official name of the country, only a small percentage of Egypt's population are actual ethnic Arabs, and those would be the Bedouin tribes in Sinai.
The idea of Pan-Arabism and Arab countries was championed in the 1950's by President Gamal AbdelNasser, building on an Idea estbalished by King Farouk of Egypt in the 1940's that was meant to make him effectively the new islamic Caliph. However, it is only a political move, it doesn't reflect the Ethnic reality of Egypt.
Egyptians don't even speak Arabic. in fact the standard dialects of Arabic (MSA and Fus-ha) have NEVER been spoken by any population in history and were only and remain to be literary languages. you can even argue that the language Egyptians speak Arabized Coptic, since it derives a lot of its grammar from the Ancient Egyptian language and borrows a lot of words from Arabic and myriad of other languages as well like italian and persian.
It's time to drop this fake Identity that doesn't represent the Majority of Egyptians. if Arabia is for Arabs then Egypt is for EGYPTIANS.
the Republic of Egypt
Not the Arab Republic of Egypt
Done.
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