Krämer, Gudrun (1989). The Jews in Modern Egypt, 1914–1952. I.B. Tauris. p. 233. ISBN978-1-85043-100-8.: "These developments concerned all local foreign minorities, and after 1956 the large majority of Greeks, Italians, Belgians, French, and British did, indeed, leave the country as well. Non-Muslim and non-Arab minorities had smaller chances to integrate into the Egyptian nation once it came to be increasingly defined on Arab and Islamic lines."