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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC GENOGRAPHIC PROJECT ON THE EGYPTIAN GENETIC MAKE-UP – PART I: THE EGYPTIAN REACTION

In January 2017, Egyptian papers and digital media were inundated with news about the Egyptian genomic makeup discovered by the American-based National Geographic Genographic Project (NGGP). Egypt Independent, for example, came out with its heading, “DNA Analysis Proves That Egyptians Are Not Arabs;”[1] and Cairo Scene wrote, “National Geographic’s DNA Analysis Concludes That Egyptians Are Only…