Egyptian nationalists could simultaneously enforce and suffer colonialism.

Evidence

The chapter concludes with the ways in which Sudanese figures debated the issue of unity with Egypt under the watchful eyes of British administrators in the Sudan, and a discussion of how the dualism of the colonized colonizer was viewed by people in the Sudan, nominally colonized by both Great Britain and Egypt. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 121 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Egyptian nationalists held a Janus-faced worldview of being colonized yet colonizing.; Egyptian officers were simultaneously targets and agents of colonial power; Egyptian nationalism and colonialism became linked through racial difference (+13 more)

Broader Connections