By: Gazette Staff CAIRO, April 26, 2018 - Minister of Immigration and Expatriates' Affairs Nabila Makram said on Thursday that the "Roots Revival Week" is a message of peace to the world. In statements to Al-Gomhuria newspaper, Minister Makram said that the event which addresses Egyptian, Greek and Cypriot communities is the first of its kind to honour foreign communities. Makram also said that she had coordinated with her Greek and Cypriot counterparts to choose Greek and Cypriot participants in the event whose families used to live in Egypt a century ago. Accordingly, she explained, a special programme has been designed for 120 visitors representing the second and third generations of Egyptian and Greek communities in different countries. The programme includes visits to the places in which their families used to live, such as Zizinia and El Raml neighbourhoods in Alexandria, followed by a visit to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, a tour of Giza Pyramids, and finally a visit to Saint Catherine's Monastery in south Sinai. In December 2017, Egypt, Cyprus and Greece signed a co-operation protocol on the project "Nostos, the return" which aims at bringing Cypriots and Greeks who used to live in Alexandria back to the city.
