Egyptian colonization began decades before the 1882 British occupation

Evidence

For him the colonization of Egypt is not to be understood in the traditional manner of the process of structuring Egyptian society after the British military takeover in 1882. Rather, it was a process that had started much earlier and which entailed the complete restructuring of Egyptian society – the government bureaucracy, the military, the schools, cities, towns, streets, houses, families and the body of the individual – in such a way that made Egypt not only more profitable, more productive, but also represented the country in a manner that produced the same division of the world into two domains that had been accomplished earlier in Europe and which made it more accessible to European control. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 113

Categorization

• CANDY: A counterintuitive hook — the ‘colonization’ of Egypt predates the British flag by decades — portable to a general-audience conversation.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 113
• XREF: connects to: Britain occupied Egypt while the Mahdï seized the Sudan in 1882-83; Egypt’s informal British occupation contrasted with its formal 1821 colonial rule over the Sudan; Mubärak published his text in 1882, right after Britain occupied Egypt (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Egypt ran its own colonial empire in Sudan from 1821 to 1884 #corroborates (0.90)
• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. #expands (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121
• Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan #expands (0.80)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan #expands (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. #expands (0.80)
• British occupation displaced Ottoman authority and severed Egypt from its dependency the Sudan #contradicts (0.40)