Summary There are presently about three thousand Greeks living in Egypt, most of them in Cairo, the rest in Alexandria. They are a pale reminder of a glorious past. In the period between the two world wars, a century after they began arriving, the Greeks in Egypt were about one hundred thousand. They were the largest and most diverse of the foreign communities in Egypt and played a prominent role in the country's banking, cotton, and commercial sectors. This documentary tells the story of how the Greeks first settled in Egypt in the early nineteenth century and how renowned Greeks of Egypt, mostly people of the arts and benefactors like Constantinos Kavafis, Georgios Averoff, Emmanuel Tossitsas, Penelope Delta, Michael Salvagos, Jean Desses, Andonis Benakis, Alexander Iolas, Voula Zoumboulaki, Alexander Zizzinias, Stratis Tsirkas, Angelos Vlahos and others, shaped the economy not only in Alexandria and Cairo but also Greece. View more details

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