An Egyptian nationalist argued Sudanese deserved equality with Egyptians

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Lutfï al-Sayyid “bitterly disapproved” of the class distinctions that Egyptians recognized among themselves. The sharing of such close historical and political experiences should make any right-minded Egyptian forget the artificial prejudice that so many harbored against the Sudanese. After all, there are those “among the sons of Lower Egypt who continue to view the Saïdï [villager from southern Egypt] with a prejudiced eye [bi nazratï al-makhsüsa], but that viewpoint cannot remove the Saïdï from his equality with the British. Likewise, those who view the Sudanese with shortsightedness do not remove the Sudanese from their equality with Egyptians in all rights and duties.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 772