A black slave descendant participated in Egyptian nationalist literature.

Evidence

It is important to add to those insights, however, that although Imäm al- Abd wrote about how alone he felt in Egyptian society, he also clearly expressed how much a part of it he considered himself politically. In fact, Imäm al-Abd added his own words to the nationalist literature so popular in his lifetime. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 809

Categorization

• XREF: Nuances the typical picture of colonial-era nationalism as exclusively elite — a marginalized Sudanese-descended poet finds voice in Egyptian national identity.