Egyptian comic theater performed Nubians and Sudanese through blackface

Evidence

Al-Kassär perfected a character known as Osman Abd al-Basit, a servant whose affability and humor won al-Kassär the honorific Barbarï Masr al-Wahïd (the one and only Nubian of Egypt). Al-Kassär performed in blackface at the Majestic Theater on Imad al-Dïn Street in downtown Cairo, in the heart of the theater district that grew so lively in World War I (see fig. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 875

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels minstrelsy/blackface traditions elsewhere; relevant to comparative colonial frameworks of Egypt misrepresenting its own southern frontier.
• SEED: An angle on how colonized peoples adopt the mimicry and stereotyping of the colonizer against their own internal others — Egypt’s Nubian blackface as internalized coloniality.