The Saidi Arabs of Egypt, numbering approximately 27,110,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as the Arabic-speaking population of Upper Egypt's Nile Valley from Beni Suef to the Sudan border, who identify as the most direct descendants of the ancient Pharaonic Egyptians and maintain strong tribal solidarity and honor codes They are an Indigenous people, with Arab, Saidi as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Arab, Egyptian people cluster of the Arab Peoples. They mostly adhere to Sunni Islam and Saidi Arabic is their primary language.