Arabic terms like ‘nation’ reached Egypt only recently and met British contradiction

Evidence

This was necessary in an environment in which words like nation had only recently been translated into Arabic, words whose viability within an Egyptian context were continuously contradicted by the British occupying forces. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 103

Categorization

• QUESTION: How did the recent translation of political vocabulary into Arabic shape the Egyptian nationalist lexicon, and does this echo in Sudan’s later anti-colonial vocabulary?