Regions with significant populations | |
---|---|
Cairo · Alexandria | |
Languages | |
English · Indonesian • Malay · Egyptian Arabic | |
Religion | |
Sunni Islam | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Javanese, Malays (ethnic group), Minangkabau |
Malays in Egypt make up a part of the overseas Malay population. Malay speakers who came to Egypt are mainly from Indonesia and Malaysia. In 1927, they started a newspaper, Seruan Azhar.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Roff, William R. (April 1970), "Indonesian and Malay Students in Cairo in the 1920s", Indonesia, 9 (9), Southeast Asia Program Publications at Cornell University: 73–87, doi:10.2307/3350623, hdl:1813/53486, JSTOR 3350623