Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blacks in Egypt

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The result was delete. ♠PMC♠ (talk) 05:04, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Blacks in Egypt[edit]

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There's no racial classification based on color in Egypt, whether in the modern republic or historically. The article seems more like an Essay made by synthesis of unrelated material. The notion of black or white as currently understood in the US and a lot of european countries is highly eurocentric and not familiar in Egypt. The sources that do speak about "Blacks in Egypt" don't speak of a united ethnic group as the article suggests. They either talk about the Black Egyptian Hypothesis, which is considered a fringe theory by mainstream scholars. Or, They talk about the racism that some dark-skinned African immigrants or refugees face in Egypt today, including dark-skinned Egyptians from the south sometimes (Ancient Egyptians attached no special stigma to the colour of the skin and developed no hierarchical notions of race whereby highest and lowest positions in the social pyramid were based on colour, According to most scholars), so suggesting that all these groups constitute a unified group only based on their potentially shared experience of racism, or based on the American definition of "black" is clearly original research. I suggest the contents be moved to the articles talking about racism in Egypt and Arab slave trade. Mohamed^Talk 03:17, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Egypt-related deletion discussions. Mohamed^Talk 03:17, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete The very existence of this article supports essentialist ideas on race that have been rejected by scholars for decades.John Pack Lambert (talk) 14:32, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Ethnic groups-related deletion discussions. Spiderone 10:59, 14 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Delete a case of WP:SYNTH Spiderone 12:35, 15 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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