Egypt reversed from an immigrant-receiving to an emigrant-sending country

Evidence

This is one of the factors which has led to an entirely new phenomenon in Egyptian life—emigration. For hundreds and indeed thousands of years Egypt has been a country of immigration not of emigration. The hospitable land and people of Egypt, the wealth of the Nile valley, have in ancient, medieval and modern times attracted immigrants from many other countries who have come to Egypt, settled there, and contributed to its growth and development. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1290

Categorization

• CANDY: The reversal of a millennia-long pattern — Egypt as land of immigrants now losing Copts to emigration — is a compact, tweetable historical irony.