Economic history of Egypt

thumb|316x316px|Henry Kissinger with Anwar Sadat, 1975 Infitah (, , ), or Law 43 of 1974, was Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's policy of "opening the door" to private investment in Egypt in the years after the 1973 October War (Yom Kippur War) with Israel. Infitah was accompanied by a break with longtime ally and aid-giver the USSR—which was replaced by the United States—and by a peace process with Israel, symbolized by Sadat's dramatic flight to Jerusalem in 1977. Infitah ended the domination of Egypt's economy by the public sector and encouraged both domestic and foreign investment in the pr

commerce with Mesopotamia, India, Arabia and Africa

explosion set off by Hamas militants

first coin minted in ancient Egypt

1967–1975

former currency unit used in Egypt