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Answer 1
Egyptians can be either arabic descent or african. Arabs are people native to Saudi Arabia.
Answer 2
Egyptians can be Arabs, Africans, or any other race if they are domiciled in Edypt. - Arabs are spread across northern Africa and the Eastern Mediterranean, all the way from Morocco to Oman and Yemen ( not just from Saudi Arabia.) The whole Middle East is a melting pot of all races, religions and nationalities. - I have met Jewish Egyptians, Arab Israelis and Nubian Omanis among others.
Answer 3
Egyptian is a national term referring to any person who has permanent residency, citizenship, or origin in Egypt. The Egyptian population is made of a number of significant ethnic groups: Fellahin (Settled Arabs), Bedouin (Nomadic Arabs), Copts, Nubians, Cyrenacians (the same ethnicity in east Libya), Amazigh (Berbers), Jews, etc.
Arab refers to a specific ethnic affiliation that predominates across the Middle East and North Africa usually determined by certain cultural traits, religious traits, and/or linguistic traits. The term "ethnic affiliation" is appropriate because Arabs (like Turks or Magyars but unlike Czechs or Danes) are not a homogenous ethnic group. They are composed of two numerous groups that intermarried and created a unified culture. Arab nomads from Arabia conquered the Levant, Mesopotamia, Egypt, and North Africa and brought it under their rule. During that period, those Levantines, Mesopotamians, Egyptians, and North Africans who converted to Islam began to take on the same mannerisms as the foreign Arabs who had conquered them. They began to speak the same language, dress in the same clothes, and believe in the same general ideologies. This process is well-documented by Arabs and is called Arabization or Ta3arib (تعريب). This is why the Jews and the Christians of the Arab World (except the Arabian peninsula) often do not consider themselves Arabs. Unlike their brothers whose conversion to Islam made them more susceptible to Arabization, they retained their pre-Arabized ethnic sensibility.
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Who were the Egyptians descendants of?
The descendants of the Ancient Egyptians are mostly the Coptic Egyptians, as the rest of the Egyptians are Arabs who came from what is now called Saudi Arabia. Since Ancient Egyptians were neither Arabs nor did they speak Arabic, most modern Egyptians have no connection to the Ancient Egyptians since they're Arabs.
Are modern Egyptians descended from ancient Egyptians?
Some, but most are Arabs.
What percent of egyptians are Arab?
This depends on whether or not you consider Coptic Christians to be Arab. Most Copts would argue quite fervently that they are not Arabs and are, instead, the descendents of the Egyptians from the time of the Pharaohs. Some Copts even make the argument that most Muslim Egyptians are also descendants of Pharaonic Egyptians who had been converted by the small number of Arabian Arabs to Islam and the Arabized. If the Copts are (properly) not considered to be Arabs, but the Muslim Egyptians are, Egypt is 90% Arab. If the Copts are considered to be Arabs, Egypt is >99% Arab.
Is Egypt Arab?
The overwhelming majority of Egyptians consider themselves Arabs. Some Coptic Christians in Egypt do not consider themselves Arabs because they believe themselves to be descendants of the original Ancient Egyptians.
What ancient people lived in North Egypt before Arabs settled there?
Egyptians!
