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Secret efforts to achieve an Egyptian-Israeli peace accord started just after the 1948 war. Resuming the war, maintaining the truce, or signing a peace accord with Israel was crucial issues discussed in Egypt's political circles. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there was a chance for peace between Egypt and Israel during this period, whether Egypt was planning for another military confrontation as Israel usually used to propagate. It also attempts to answer the following two questions: What were the internal and external factors that affected Egypt's decision? And what was the American role to realize this peace? The US State of Department documents and the Egyptian Foreign Ministry's documents are the primary sources of this study. Content analysis and historical incident sequences will be used to unravel the facts regarding this relatively obscure period. According to the results of the study, to renew hostility with Israel during that period was a remote possibility for Egypt. Peace was possible only in the distant future, when domestic and regional conditions allowed, and then only in return for a partial repatriation of the refugees and the total concession of the Negev desert. The study concluded that Egypt accepted the secret peace initiatives in order to play for time. Every time the question of peace with Israel came up Egyptians were sure of Israel's failure to keep its word.

King Farouk was deposed and forced to leave Egypt after the 1952 Revolution. Under the demand of the political purification, the Wafd party was dissolved and its leaders were imprisoned or kept under house arrest. The year 1955 marked the first contact between the Farouk and Wafd with the United States. The tense relation between US and Nasser that year gave hope for both to return to power with US support. The study depended on the US State Department documents to represent these connections and to show the American opinion with it. Unlike the previous studies, the study approved that the first contact of Farouk to the US was in 1955 not in 1956; in which he commented on the Middle East situation, the US's role in depositing him and described the new regime in Egypt. The Wafd also tried to gain the US support to return to power through two different approaches. One was ready to deal with Nasser but with parliamentary life depending on the Wafd's popularity; the second was to depose Nasser and replace him with Naguib with the return of the Wafd party to the political scene. The study concluded that these connections reflected the deep ideological difference between Farouk and Wafd and showed that the US's foreign policy was determined by its interest which was not anymore with either the Wafd or Farouk.

The deteriorated Egyptians' conditions and social problems that appeared in post-World War II years were the real reasons for the Egyptians to accept and support the military coup of 1952. Poverty, diseases and ignorance were on the top of these problems that had been escalated after the war. This study argues that other social problems like narcotics smuggling, murders and homelessness were exacerbated in the Egyptian society as direct impact of the war. The US State Department documents have been the primary source material for this study. This is in addition to many Egyptian documents and sources that created a clear scene of detailed Egyptian social life in such important period. The study concluded that the successive governments during this period were not able to effectively solve the aforementioned problems. This is because the inclinations of such governments focused mainly on empowerment and rich classes besides being busy with politics.

This research explored tourism and hospitality undergraduates' tourism knowledge and how can the level of tourism knowledge affect their attitudes towards tourists. As most of those undergraduates arc supposed to work in the tourism field, so without having a positive attitude towards their work there is a minimal chance for the organization or destination to achieve customer's satisfaction and loyalty. The research investigated the factors which may affect the undergraduates' level of tourism knowledge during their study. Seven hundred and twenty eight tourism and hospitality students, from eight Egyptian public Faculties, completed a well-targeted questionnaire. This questionnaire was piloted across 60 students. The results have identified significant differences between the studied groups concerning the level of tourism knowledge and their attitudes towards tourists. There are supposed tools that tourism and hospitality faculties can effectively 'employ to improve the level of their undergraduates' tourism knowledge and enhance their altitudes, which in return, can achieve competitiveness. In addition there is a demand for the improvement of education in this field.