ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide an overall assessment of Egyptian-Greek literature which focuses on how it treated the issue of Egyptian-Greek identity and, more specifically, how it sought to construct it. The Athenian poet Kostas Ouranis also predicted in the 1950s that the history of contemporary Greek literature will certainly dedicate a full chapter to the Greek intellectuals of Alexandria who created a new "Alexandrian era"'. The present analysis showed that, under the triple influence of Greek language, Egyptian land and British Empire, the formation of a distinctive Egyptian-Greek identity was a matter of vital concern for Egypt's Greek writers. From the aftermath of the British invasion another trend appeared in Egyptian-Greek literature which reproduced many features of European Orientalist discourse. Before the happy ending, however, a chain of typical Orientalist scenes unfold. The Egyptian Greeks had been so dedicated to matters back home that their interest in Egyptian affairs was rather journalistic.
