 The process of emigrating to non-Arab states has been ongoing since the 1950s.Ethnic Egyptians are by far the largest ethnic group in the country, constituting 99.7% of the total population.Ethnic minorities include the Abazas, Turks, Greeks, Bedouin Arab tribes living in the eastern deserts and the Sinai Peninsula, the Berber-speaking Siwis (Amazigh) of the Siwa Oasis, and the Nubian communities clustered along the Nile.