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The Arab Republic of Egypt has long occupied an especially important place in the US policy toward the region of the Greater Middle East. The country’s large population of about eighty million people (with one in every four Arabs being an Egyptian), its ancient civilization (with a history of 4000 years of centralized rule), and its military and political clout make Egypt a trendsetter in the Arab world. The cooperation of successive US administrations with Egyptian leaders has therefore been instrumental to the projection of US influence in the wider Middle East.
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Lilli, E. (2016). Egypt: The Last Days of the Pharaoh. In: New Beginning in US-Muslim Relations. Middle East Today. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58362-8_4
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