Egypt and U.S. Health Assistance

Few countries have been as successful as Egypt in parlaying its strategic position into an economic asset. At the nexus of two continents, astride the Suez Canal, and with one-quarter of the Arab world’s entire population, Egypt has made itself an object of interest, and often an object of concern, among the world’s great powers for more than a half-century. Since the 1975 disengagement of Egyptian and Israeli forces from the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt has drawn more than $70 billion in U.S. as...