Egyptian nationalists condemned British empire while legitimizing Egyptian empire over Sudan

Evidence

Sanüa thus provides a reliable example of a duality around which Egyptian nationalism was beginning to take shape. This dichotomous approach to empire was articulated in racial terms. Although Sanüa was fiercely critical of Great Britain’s imperialism in India and feared the same fate for Egypt, his work reveals an intimate empire, in which the Sudanese were the servants, guards, and doorkeepers of Egyptian society. Although the Sudan itself was depicted as a wild and untamed land, Sudanese residents in Egypt were often portrayed as docile, fearful, and in need of Egyptian guidance. As the following two excerpts show, Sanü`a saw more than just a geographic border between the Sudan and Egypt: he saw a bridge of dependency as well. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 316

The humor and wit of Sanüa’s journal, and its publication in the colloquial Arabic of urban Egypt, made it a successful and enduring organ of political dissent, even after Sanüa was exiled to Paris in 1878 (for the journal’s critiques of the khedive). He continued to publish the journal in France, smuggling it into Cairo. The journal was popular, to the point where it was considered by many of his contemporaries to be one of the most important organs of the Uräbï rebellion. Sanüa thus provides a reliable example of a duality around which Egyptian nationalism was beginning to take shape. This dichotomous approach to empire was articulated in racial terms. Although Sanüa was fiercely critical of Great Britain’s imperialism in India and feared the same fate for Egypt, his work reveals an intimate empire, in which the Sudanese were the servants, guards, and doorkeepers of Egyptian society. Although the Sudan itself was depicted as a wild and untamed land, Sudanese residents in Egypt were often portrayed as docile, fearful, and in need of Egyptian guidance. As the following two excerpts show, Sanüa saw more than just a geographic border between the Sudan and Egypt: he saw a bridge of dependency as well. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 316

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s comparative Egypt-vs-Sudan coloniality project — Egyptian internal colonialism alongside anti-British nationalism.
• SEED: Article angle: how anti-colonial nationalist movements replicate the imperial hierarchies they condemn, using Egypt/Sudan as the case.
• DEEPTHINKING: The intimate empire/racial duality — condemning British empire in India while staging Sudanese servitude at home — is a dense, genuinely paradigm-shifting observation about nested coloniality.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 316