Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony

Evidence

Sha`rawï repeated all the Wafd’s ideas about the Sudan, saying, “We must hold on to our rights with respect to the issue of the Sudan, considering the Sudan an inseparable part of Egypt, and not a colony.” … In one such letter, sent to the press on 24 March 1924 she berates Zaghlül,“who knows as every one else knows that Egypt cannot tolerate her soldiers being forced out of the Sudan.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 856

Categorization

• XREF: This collapses neatly onto the reader’s core question: Egyptian nationalists practiced their own coloniality toward Sudan while opposing Britain’s — a hierarchy of empires central to comparative colonialism. — connects to: Egyptian nationalists construed the Sudan as an organic part of Egypt, not a colony; Egyptian nationalism combined anti-imperialism with its own imperial claims over Sudan; Egyptian nationalist Mustafa Kamil claimed the Sudan as Egyptian property seized illegally (+18 more)
• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the reader’s stated goal — how Egyptians imagined Sudan as ‘an inseparable part’ rather than a colony, the distinctive shade of intra-African coloniality.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 856

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalism treated the Sudan as a proof of national virility #corroborates (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 726
• Egyptian nationalists reclaimed Sudan as Egypt’s colonial right by conquest. #corroborates (0.80)
• Egyptian nationalism hardened into racial contempt for the Sudan #expands (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 135
• Egypt’s empire in Sudan had an uncertain national identity #expands (0.70)
• Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists, however anti-colonial, retained racial prejudice against Sudanese #exemplifies (0.60)