The concept of "minority" has acquired new urgency. The last two decades have witnessed a widespread resurgence of the political reflections of the concept. Although the dilemmas are enduring, it is now possible to confront them in a quite new light. Revolutionary periods are often a product of numerous events that snowball into fully fledged eruptions that lead to drastic changes in the political and social fabric of states and societies and thus to the context of minorities, and it's clear that the case of Egypt introduced new givens to the concept and its reflections