Egypt in the eyes of the Egyptians

I believe that everyone feels so special about his own country and his homeland, but in Egypt it is so different. The ties between the people of Egypt and the land go beyond the normal and are much deeper for many reasons. Those reasons were built over thousands of years, since the very beginning of the 
Egyptian civilization.

Egypt is mostly desert, and the only fertile land is the Nile valley and its delta. For many years the Egyptians had learned to live by the river Nile, where they could get water and grow food on the fertile land. This way of living made them very different from the people in other countries nearby; while in those countries the people lived off breeding animals, the Egyptians were brought up as farmers and they got more tied to their land 
year after year.

Many stories from ancient Egypt explained how important it was to all Egyptians when they die to be washed in the Nile, wrapped in Egyptian linen and buried in the Egyptian soil; 

otherwise there would be no guarantee to come back for the second time after death.

After all these years, you will find the Egyptians, more than anyone else, feel more homesick when they travel to another country, either to work or to live, and they always keep at the back of their mind that they should go home one day.

Egypt is not a home which we live in…. 

it is a home which lives in us.