About: Doms in Egypt

Dom people or "Ghagar" migrated to the territory of the present day Egypt from South Asia, particularly from Indian Subcontinent, and intermixed with Egyptians. The Dom people self-segregated themselves for centuries from the dominant culture of Egypt. Historically, Domari in Egypt have provided musical entertainment at weddings, boy circumcision and other celebrations, singing Egyptian traditional songs and dance in return for money. The Dom people in Egypt or Roma Egyptians include subgroups like Nawar, and Ghagar (ghaggar).The Dom in Egypt are Sunni Muslims and speak Egyptian Arabic also their own Domari language together.