56 Eftychia Mylona conducted by the author with Greeks in Athens, who were originally from Suez, Port Said, and Ismailia, April 2021; Angelos Dalachanis, “Transnational Labour in Conflict: The Italian and Greek Personnel of the Suez Canal Company and the Second World War,” in Italy and the Suez Canal, from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Cold War, ed. Barbara Curli (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), 31. Nikolas K. (former resident of Suez), telephone conversation with the author, 2 April 2021. 38 Mathētes file, Scholika file, 1961–1963, 1966–1967, Koinotēta Suez, AEKK. Greeks were the largest group working for the Suez Company. See, for example, Curli, “Dames Employées,” 554; Dalachanis, “Transnational Labour,” 326. 39 Telephone interviews conducted by the author with Greeks in Athens, who were originally from Suez, Port Said, and Ismailia, April 2021. 40 Michalis B. (former resident of Suez), telephone conversation with the author, 4 April 2021. 41 42 Mathētes file, Scholika file, 1961–1963, 1966–1967, Koinotēta Suez, AEKK. 43 Mathētes file, Scholika file, 1961–1963, 1966–1967, Koinotēta Suez, AEKK. Anthony Gorman, “Egypt’s Forgotten Communists: The Postwar Greek Left,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 20, no. 1 (2002): 14; Konstantinos Daratzikis, O Ellēnismos Diōrygos tou Suez kai Kairou kata toys polemous 1967 kai 1973 (Athens: University of Crete, 1994), 19; Nikolas K., telephone conversation with the author, 2 April 2021. 44 One of my interlocutors, Nikolas, shared with me the story of Foula Margaraki. Nikolas K., telephone conversation with the author, 2 April 2021. The consulate of Port Said remained closed after the war and until 1976. Thus, its activities were managed by the consulate in Cairo, where the consulates of Mansoura and Suez were also located. Daratzikis, Ellēnismos Diōrygos, 19–21. On the migration crisis due to the Arab-Israeli Wars, see Mohamed Abdel Shakur, Sohair Mehanna, and Nicholas S. Hopkins, “War and Forced Migration in Egypt: The Experience of Evacuation from the Suez Canal Cities (1967–1976),” Arab Studies Quarterly 27, no. 3 (2005): 21–39. 45 46 Hanley, Identifying with Nationality, 16. The concerns over army conscription were particularly the case for the residents of the Suez Canal region. Due to the 1967 and 1973 wars, Suez Canal Greeks were very hesitant in obtaining Egyptian citizenship, as this would mean conscription into the army. Telephone interviews conducted by the author with Greeks in Athens, who were originally from Suez, Port Said, and Ismailia, April 2021. 47