A pro-independence Egyptian soldier and a Sudanese slave trader each publicized their nationalist captivity.

Evidence

This chapter compares Fawzï Pasha’s account of the political meaning of his life with that of the infamous Sudanese slave trader, al-Zubayr Rahman Pasha, who was held under house arrest in Cairo for almost as long as Fawzï languished in the Sudan, and who also sought ways to publicize his unique experience with Egyptian nationalism. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 118

Categorization

• SEED: The paired-biographies device — two men on opposite sides of the colonial divide, each imprisoned by the other’s world — could anchor an essay on how nationalism looks from inside a cage.