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Mostly it's that Egypt was culturally assimilated by Arabic-speaking invaders in the 7th century AD. The people, genetically speaking, are largely the same, as the Arabic-speaking invaders, while insistent on the supremacy of the Arabic language, generally intermarried freely with the Egyptians, and were not numerous enough to 'push out' (nor particularly interested in such a thing) the natives.
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Okay so my source wasn't completly wrong, or maybe it was a language gap issue, either way thanks for them sweet deets!