Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination
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." — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 856</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Egyptian nationalists held a Janus-faced worldview of being colonized yet colonizing.; The founder of Egyptian nationalism despised Sudan yet deemed it vital to Egypt; Egyptian nationalism was defined against the Sudanese as racial other (+42 more)
Related
- Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony (similarity 0.95)
- Egyptian nationalists denied Sudan’s colonial status by framing it as part of Egypt. (similarity 0.94)
- Egyptian nationalists construed the Sudan as an organic part of Egypt, not a colony (similarity 0.93)
- Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as inseparable from Egypt while denouncing British imperialism (similarity 0.93)
- Egyptian nationalists claimed primacy among all colonizers of Sudan. (similarity 0.92)
- Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.91)
- Egyptian nationalists regarded Sudan as an inseparable part of Egypt, not a colony. (similarity 0.91)
- Egyptian nationalists rejected the condominium’s equal-partner premise (similarity 0.89)
- Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as their own colony by right of conquest (similarity 0.88)
- Egyptian nationalists framed the Sudan not as a colony but as integral Egyptian territory (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian nationalism combined British colonization with eagerness to recolonize the Sudan (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian nationalists regarded the Sudan as Egyptian property to be reconquered. (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian nationalists claimed the Sudan as rightful Egyptian territory needing reconquest. (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian anti-colonial nationalists simultaneously dreamed of dominating the Sudan (similarity 0.87)
- Egyptian nationalists rejected any racial identification with Africans being colonized (similarity 0.86)
Broader Connections
- Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan as part of Egypt while denying it was a colony
#corroborates(0.90) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 856