Egyptian nationalism is based on Egyptians and Egyptian culture. Egyptian nationalism has typically been a civic nationalism that has emphasized the unity of Egyptians regardless of their ethnicity or religion. Egyptian nationalism first manifested itself as Anti-English sentiment during the Egyptian revolution of 1919.
Both the Arabic language and the ancient Egyptian language are Afroasiatic languages sharing a common origin. The rule of Muhammad Ali of Egypt led Egypt to a more advanced level of industrialization in comparison with Egypt's neighbors, along with more discoveries of relics of ancient Egyptian civilization. The Urabi movement in the 1870s and 1880s was the first major Egyptian nationalist movement that demanded an end to the alleged despotism of the Muhammad Ali family and demanded curbing the growth of European influence in Egypt, it campaigned under the nationalist slogan of "Egypt for Egyptians".
One of the key figures in opposing British rule was the Egyptian journalist Yaqub Sanu whose cartoons from 1870s onward satirizing first the Khedive, Ismail the Magnificent, and then Egypt's British rulers as bumbling buffoons were very popular in the 19th century. Sanu was the first to write in Egyptian Arabic, which was intended to appeal to a mass audience, and his cartoons could be easily understood by even the illiterate. Sanu had established the newspaper Abu-Naddara Zarqa, which was the first newspaper to use Egyptian Arabic in March 1877. One of his cartoons mocked Ismail the Magnificent for his fiscal extravagance which caused Egypt's bankruptcy in 1876, leading Ismail, who did not appreciate the cartoon, to order his arrest. Sanu fled to Paris, and continued to publish Abu-Naddara Zarqa there, with its issues being smuggled into Egypt until his death in 1912.
The period between 1860 − 1940 was characterized by El-nahda, renaissance or rebirth. It is best known its renewed interest in Egyptian antiquity and the cultural achievements that were inspired by it.
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Egyptians (مِصرِيُّون, mɪsʕrɪjˈjuːn; مَصرِيِّين, mɑsʕɾɪjˈjiːn; remenkhēmi) are an ethnic group native to the Nile Valley in Egypt. Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population is concentrated in the Nile Valley, a small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to the Mediterranean and enclosed by desert both to the east and to the west. This unique geography has been the basis of the development of Egyptian society since antiquity.
thumb|right|300px|Drapeau du nationalisme arabe. Voir l'article détaillant les couleurs panarabes. Le nationalisme arabe (en القومية العربية al-Qawmiyya al-ʿArabiyya) est une réclamation de l'héritage commun au monde arabe, selon laquelle tous les Arabes sont unis par une histoire, une culture et une langue commune. Ce nationalisme défend la thèse de l'existence d'une seule nation arabe, s'étendant de l'Atlantique au Golfe, elle vise une citoyenneté libératrice des archaïsmes, du sectarisme et de toutes les dépendances.
thumb|Drapeau révolutionnaire égyptien. thumb|Manifestations au Caire en 1919. La révolution égyptienne de 1919 est une révolution menée par Saad Zaghloul contre le colonialisme britannique en Égypte et au Soudan et qui aboutit à l'indépendance de l'Égypte en 1922. La Première Guerre mondiale se traduit en Égypte par l’expansion de la bureaucratie de l’État colonial britannique, la conscription forcée des Égyptiens, l’appropriation par les Britanniques de la production de coton, et par l’obligation d’approvisionner les troupes britanniques.