I don't wish to confuse anyone already confused by offering facts but...Here is the CIA's ethnic description of modern Egypt:
Eastern Hamitic stock (Egyptians, Bedouins, and Berbers) 99%, Greek, Nubian, Armenian, other European (primarily Italian and French) 1%
C.I.A.-The World Factbook 2002; Egypt, People.
Please Note: Arabs & Bedouin are Semites, not Eastern Hamites. Berbers are Western Hamites. Nubians, like Ethiopians and Somalis are Eastern Hamites. The CIA is confused.
And this from a 1911 Encyclopedia! :
HAMITIC RACES AND LANGUAGES. The questions involved in a consideration of Hamitic races and Hamitic languages are independent of one another and call for separate treatment.
I. Hamitic Races.The term Hamitic as applied to race is not only extremely vague but has been much abused by anthropological writers. Of the few who have attempted a precise definition the most prominent is Sergi,i and his classification may be taken as representing one point of view with regard to this difficult question.
Sergi considers the Hamites, using the term in the racial sense, as a branch, of his Mediterranean Race; and divides them as follows:
1. Eastern Branch
(a) Ancient and Modern Egyptian (excluding the Arabs).
(b) Nubians, Beja.
(c) Abyssinians.
(d) Galla, Danakil, Somali.
1 G. Sergi, The Mediterranean Race. A Study of the Origin oJ European Peoples (London, 1901); idem, Africa, Antropologia della stirpe camitica (Turin, 1897).
(e) Masai.
(f) Wahuma or Watusi.
2. Northern Branch
(a) Berbers of the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Sahara.
(b) Tibbu.
(c) Fula.
(d) Guanches (extinct).
So according to Sergi, the Ancient and Modern Egyptian (excluding the Arabs), Nubians, Beja, Abyssinians (Ethiopians), Galla, Danakil, Somali belonged to the same racial grouping - like Swedes, Germans, Danes, etc. are Nordic peoples.
So whether or not we call them "Mediterranean Race" or "GoobleyGookins", everyone knows what these folks look like. What debate? What controversy??