The present article aims at describing the lively relationship and the cooperation between Hungary and Egypt from 1974 to 1990. The two nations had similar political systems ruling them, and their development and expansion during this era has shown significant similarities. For explaining the important changes that occurred almost at the same time with the economic and military elite of these countries, not only secondary, but primary, archival sources were used as well. The legacy of the late relative of Mr Horváth Ede, one of the most important great Hungarian businessmen of that era provided interesting reminiscence of the theme written about. Using mostly qualitative (and some quantitative) methods, the goal of the article thus was to revive for the reader the commercial life between the two countries in the given era. This way, reaching the end of the 90s in both countries, the similarities and common interests of the two states can be presented. By providing these data, the authors want to show how similarly the late socialist events and transformations took place in the two countries.
Szabó et al. (Fri,) studied this question.