E-book on Egypt,comparison with india

1. Table of content Page number
History of Ancient Egypt 2
Geo Political significance of the Egypt 3
Comparative Chart with India 4
Current State of Relationship between India and Egypt 5
How Can India improve its trade, cultural and political ties
with Egypt
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2. The first dynasty: from c.3100 BC
the First Dynasty, the capital moved
from unified Egypt ruled by an Egyptian-
king.
1798-1801- French invasion
and occupation of Egypt by
Napoleon Bonaparte. This ends
Mamluke rule in Egypt.
1803-1807-Egyptian
Revolution--Political
violence engulfed Egypt,
leading to the rise of
Muhammed Ali as Pasha of
Egypt.
1820-1839-Egyptian
Conquest of the Sudan.
1825-1832-Egyptian intervention to aid the
Ottoman Turks in Greek War of
Independence. This war brings Egypt into
conflict with the British, French, and
Russians.
1882-British Conquest of
Egypt.
1922-British declare the independence of
Egypt. British still retained control of
Egyptian foreign policy and basic
administration of the country.
1948-1949-War with Israel in the
First Arab-Israeli War. Egypt gains
control of the Gaza Strip.
1948 (December 28)-- Prime Minister
Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, was
assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood.
1952-Egyptian Revolution of 1952. King
Farouk overthown by Lieutenant General
Muhammad Naguib and Gamel Abdel
Nasser. Naguib becomes Egypt's first
President.
1954-Nasser becomes
Prime Minister and
effectively rules Egypt
with President Naguib as
a figurehead.
1958-Egypt united with Syria to form the
United Arab Republic. The UAR existed
until Syria's secession in 1961
1962-1970-Egypt intervened in the
Yemen Civil War. This intervention
brought Egypt into conflict with Saudi
Arabia.
1973- War with Israel. The Yom
Kippur/Ramadan War paves the way for
eventual peace negotiations to take
place.
1977 (July)-Short
borderwith Libya.
1979-Egypt and Israel sign the Egypt-Israel
Peace Treaty, ending the state of war that had
existed since 1948
1981-Assassination of President
Sadat. Vice-PresidentHosni
Mubarakpower.
1989-Egypt readmitted to
the Arab League. 1991-War with Iraq. Egypt took part in the
multi-national coalition that drove Iraqi forces
from Kuwait in theGulf War.
2011-Massive unrestplace throughout Egypt
with opposition groups calling for the
ouster of President Mubarak.
June, 2012--Egyptians vote in their first free election, choosing Islamist
leaderMorsias the President of Egypt. Morsi was the candidate of the
formerly outlawed Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi won with almost 52%
of the vote.

3. Egypt, under President El-Sisi, has been making major changes in its
international alliances. With two visits to Beijing, and four visits to
Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin,El-Sisi has been
reaching out to create different alliances and to make it clear that
this new path is being driven internally. However, from our
perspective, these changes have come at a price, and perhaps it is a
price that different elements of the state had not realised that they
would pay.
On 3 October, Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Sameh Shoukry, commented
that the Russian action in Syria was positive and that he expected
the military intervention would act to stem the spread of terrorism
and the Islamic State group (IS).
The Nile is hardly the perfect river. While its annual flow cycle is reliable — so reliable that the rare
instances of drought are quite literally Biblical events — the river is not commercially navigable. On its
upper course, water hazards — called cataracts — block navigation by all but the smallest vessels. On
its lower course within the delta, the river splits — naturally as well as due to the hand of man — into a
smattering of much smaller and shallower distributaries that bar maritime traffic by boats of any
significant size. The only maritime experience Egypt has in any era is on the river's midcourse between
Cairo and Aswan, where larger boats can be used
The greatest misunderstanding about Egypt is the common belief
that it is a large country. It does occupy more than 1 million square
kilometers (386,000 square miles) — twice the size of France — but
most of its territory is wasteland. In fact, slightly less than 35,000 of
those 1 million square kilometers, a land area roughly the size of the
U.S. state of Maryland or the European country of Belgium, are
actually inhabited. This tiny portion of massive Egypt — from the
Aswan High Dam to the Mediterranean shore — is the Egyptian core
and home to 99 percent of Egypt's population of 83 million.
Those 35,000 square kilometers, however, are not condensed into a
convenient, easy-to-manage, Belgium-shaped chunk. Instead, they
are stretched thin, clinging to the banks of the Nile River in a strip
that is almost always less than 30 kilometers (18 miles) wide. Only at
the northern delta (the Nile flows from south to north) does this
zone of habitation finally widen and fan out into the Mediterranean.
Cairo, the modern-day capital, sits at the point where the river
transforms into the delta. Alexandria, Egypt's premier port and
opening to the world since the third century B.C., sits near the
western edge of the alluvial fan.
Geo Political significance of the Egypt

4. Countr
y Code year
Economic
growth
GDP per capita,
current dollars
Inflatio
n
Share of
agriculture
Share of
industry
Exports, in
dollars
Imports, in
dollars
Unemployment
rate
Gasoline
prices
Egypt EG 2011 1.82 2816.67 10.1 14.52 37.63 48.54 58.26 12
Egypt EG 2012 2.19 3068.19 7.1 14.47 39.22 45.81 67.93 12.7 0.45
Egypt EG 2013 2.11 3104.22 9.4 14.51 39.17 49.11 67.4 12.7
Egypt EG 2014 2.2 3198.7 10.1 14.48 39.95 43.52 68.92
India IN 2011 6.64 1471.66 8.9 18.37 33.11 445.64 564.45 3.5
India IN 2012 5.08 1449.66 9.3 18.04 31.93 447.41 570.05 3.6 1.25
India IN 2013 6.9 1455.1 10.9 17.95 30.73 468.48 523.56 3.6
India IN 2014 7.42 1581.51 6.4 16.96 30.05 475.03 522.67

5. India was one of the first countries to express its support to the democratic transition after
January 25, 2011.
India and Egypt were founding members of the Non-Aligned Movement, and the
friendship between President Gamal Abdel Nasser and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
underpinned the Treaty of Friendship signed in 1955.
As for the political side, India and Egypt still represent the main driving force for the Non-
Aligned Movement.
Egypt and India are important countries in the Non-Aligned Movement, which submitted a
proposal on reforming the structure of the United Nations with the Security Council in
particular so as to be more expressive and representative of the international true state of
affairs and provide further international democratization to the UN resolutions. Egypt and
India are of specific regional weight in Asia and Africa that qualifies them to join the
permanent membership of the Security Council.
On 5/8/2015: President Abdel
Fattah El-Sisi received a message
from Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on India's
keenness on boosting bilateral
ties in all fields. The message was
handed over by Indian Prime
Minister's Special Envoy and
Road Transport Highways and
Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari
who arrived Egypt to attend the
New Suez Canal inauguration
ceremony.
On 29/10/2015: President Abdel Fattah
El-Sisi extended an invitation to Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit
Egypt with the aim of boosting
cooperation between the two countries.
During his meeting with the Indian
prime minister, Sisi also discussed with
him ways of boosting bilateral
cooperation in trade and investment
spheres along with ways of combating
terrorism. The meeting was held
following the opening session of third
India-Africa Forum Summit in New
Delhi.
On 7/7/2015: Indian Minister
of State for Parliamentary
Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi
visited Egypt and met
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
Naqvi invited Sisi to attend
the third Indian-African Forum
Summit. They also discussed
means of boosting bilateral
relations and countering
terrorism. Sisi told Naqvi that
Cairo is looking forward to
enhancing ties with New Delhi
in all fields
To increase the trade between
India and Egypt we need to
increase the volume of trade.
India imports items like oil, gas
citrus, rock phosphate and
vegetables, while on the other
hand we import commercial
automobiles, chemicals, rice, tea
and meat. Increase the trade of
these items
The main Indian exports to Egypt have been: Meat, cotton yarn and fabrics,
machinery and equipment's, transport equipment's, articles of base metals
including iron and steel, plastic and articles thereof, jute products, human
vaccines, bulk drugs and pharmaceuticals, chemicals and allied products
including reactive dyes, rubber and rubber products and traditional items
such as tea, tobacco, sesame seeds and lentils.
With reduction of tariffs and deregulation of the business environment in
Egypt, new trade opportunities have opened up for Indian exporters. Indian
exports of Meat, Tea, Cotton Yarn and Fabrics, Paper and related products and
the export of Sesame Seeds have seen a quantum increase in the last 4-5
years.
Egypt ready to import
more from India
under normal
conditions of
international trade,
i.e., if there is
demand and prices
are competitive. The
average import duty
in Egypt is 6%, which
is very low when
compared to that of
India.
Import more oil and natural
gas from Egypt