New ethnic identities in the Balkans: the case of the Egyptians

Abstract

After the Kosovo crisis the world discovered the existence of a new community, unknown till then. This was the community of the so called Balkan Egyptians. The international institutions (such as KFOR, UNHCR, OSCE and others), the non-governmental and human rights organizations and the mass media were puzzled and confused by this new phenomenon and they did not know how to react to it.