Just like pro-market reforms everywhere else, the benefits of economic liberalization in Egypt accrued to an increasingly small number of businessmen with close personal ties to the regime while the great majority of Egyptians received no benefit at all.

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There was a great tendency that the Egyptians prayed only in the mosque for Egyptians.

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There is a great deal of poverty here, combined with a historic feeling that Egyptians outside Suez do not appreciate the sacrifices made by people in this region in the wars against Israel more than 40 years ago.

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