Egyptian Education and Culture Ministry official Dr. Radha Abu Sari'a announced that it had been decided to eliminate foreign history studies in international and foreign schools in Egypt. He said that starting with the next school year, the only history taught would be Egyptian history, in Arabic.

The change is aimed at preserving Egypt's cultural identity and preventing a recurrence of incidents such as that in which a schoolbook claimed that the Jews had built the pyramids.

Source: Al-Wafd, Egypt, March 9, 2007