| Description | Folder of papers relating to Iraq's relations with Egypt. Topics covered include the violent backlash against the two million Egyptians working in Iraq after the end of the First Gulf War (1988), a Baghdad Observer article on Baghdad's Egyptian quarter of Mraba'h, the 1988 visit by Egypt's First Lady to Iraq, the personal relationship between Saddam Hussein and Hosni Mubarak, Iraq's purchase of Egyptian aircraft, Egyptian exports to Iraq and agreements on economic, trade, scientific and technical co-operation (1987), the restoration of diplomatic ties (1985), intervention in the threatened execution of immigrant Egyptian workers convicted of forging passports (1985), and the breakdown of relations following Iraq's 1989 invasion of Kuwait. |