Cairo: Egypt’s president Mohammed Mursi is flying to Saudi Arabia on his first foreign trip, highlighting the traditionally close ties between the two regional allies.
Thousands of Brotherhood members sought refuge in Saudi Arabia in the 1950s and 1960s to escape crackdowns by Gamal Abdel-Nasser, Egypt’s ruler at the time.
But Saudi Arabia’s own problems with violent Islamist groups have cooled its ties with groups espousing political Islam, like the Brotherhood.
Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood has said that his administration has no plans to “export” Egypt’s revolution, an implicit reassurance to Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies, nervous over the possibility of Arab Spring revolts reaching their shores.
Some 1.6 million Egyptians live and work in Saudi Arabia, which is one of the biggest investors in Egypt.
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