Egyptian nationalists desired to recolonize Sudan even after losing it

Evidence

These six decades (almost the length of the British occupation of Egypt) affected the lives of many Egyptians—differently than their encounter with western Europe but in ways just as profound and complicated. Even the famous and decisive rebellion of the Mahdï, which lasted from 1881 to 1898 and effectively ended direct Egyptian control of the Sudan, could not put a stop to the calls made for its reconquest, by men whose books Mitchell himself analyzes in Colonising Egypt. And the omission of these views further ignores the fact that the world of Egyptian bureaucrats and nationalists was not simply a bipolar path between London or Paris and Cairo. This observation, then, complements Ahmad’s point about Said not addressing the existence of colonialist tendencies in the colonized, and it adds another transitive meaning to the verb in the title Mitchell chose for his book: colonizing Egypt—a country that was both object and subject. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 83

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the reader’s question about shades of coloniality: Egypt as both colonized subject and colonizing object, relevant to the comparative Egypt-Sudan framework.