The following article is available through www.academia.edu THE EMIGRATION OF GREEKS FROM EGYPT  DURING THE EARLY POST-WAR YEARS by Angelos Ntalachanis Excerpt from article: The historiography of the Greek exodus from Egypt refers to the post-war emigration with a single term:  “outflow.”  Considered to presage the mass exodus that took place at the beginning of the 1960s, the phenomenon has never been analyzed in detail.  By the 1930s an important number of Greeks had left Egypt for Greece.  One of the reasons for this early departure was unemployment, which resulted from economic and social changes in Egypt that occurred after independence, in 1922, and the abolition of the Capitulations, in 1937.  The situation in Greece in the interwar period was favorable to “repatriation”.  In this period, however the main concern of the Greek diplomatic authorities in Egypt was to promote self-control in order to prevent the mass “repatriation” of ...