الفهرس 
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Abstract
Alienation is a pure human phenomenon; it is as old as the existence of the mankind on the surface of the Earth. It could be classified into three categories according to its types, destination and the staying length. Its types usually differ according to the main target(s) to be achieved such as economic, political, personal, social, administrative, religious, cultural, therapeutic or even for leisure. However, alienation could be applied on a national or an international level. For the time duration, it could be carried out for either short or long periods of time. There were strong mutual relationships between Egypt and the outside world on a large scale in different fields of life. Such relations directly resulted in attracting the attention toward its importance, priority, strategic location and its richness in different natural resources. Thus, Egypt used to receive a large number of foreign alienators regardless their good or bad intentions as they willingly came and even alienated on its lands. More than a foreign colony was established on the Egyptian land to be the new homeland for those foreign alienators such as Naucratis and that Jewish district at Elephantine. Egypt received different immigrants who left their main homeland due to its bad circumstances and warmly welcomed by the Egyptians. By the passage of time those alienators preferred to live the rest of their life in Egypt rather than returning to their main homeland. On the other hand, ancient Egyptians had strong tendency towards settlement rather than travelling. They had to have strong reasons to motivate them to travel even if it was on the national level. However, some jobs usually required travelling a lot such as messengers, tradesmen, policemen, army officers and others. In general, Egyptian alienators usually suffered from strong feelings of xenophobia, homesickness and self-searching even if they lived a very luxurious lifestyle abroad.