Of course the Brits stopped them.. Hitler wanted to control all the oil from the Caspian to the Persian Gulf.
The Italians maintained an interest in North Africa and Ethiopia.
"The extensive studies done by Gershoni, Jankowski and Nordbruch have definitely undermined the long-standing interpretation of Egyptian intellectual history in the 1930s as having been mainly inspired by pro-Nazi inclinations. Their detailed studies of Egyptian newspapers, periodicals and books of this era show that those who shaped Egyptian public opinion were unreceptive or more often hostile to Fascism and National Socialism. In their great majority, they opposed the Fascist concept of racial superiority. They criticized Italy's and Germany's expansionist military programs, and rejected many totalitarian ideas and practices. Taha Husayn (d. 1973), possibly the most important Egyptian public intellectual and liberal humanist at the time, strongly and continuously opposed not only Fascist but all totalitarian ideas."
https://www.perspectivia.net/publikationen/orient-institut-studies/1-2012/wild_adolf-hitler