Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonialism’s object and as its active subject

Evidence

This observation, then, complements Ahmad’s point about Said not addressing the existence of colonialist tendencies in the colonized, and it adds another transitive meaning to the verb in the title Mitchell chose for his book: colonizing Egypt—a country that was both object and subject. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 83

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes broader postcolonial debates including Aijaz Ahmad on Said and the colonized-who-colonize phenomenon.