Egyptian officials exiled intellectuals to the Sudan as a form of punishment

Evidence

Al-Tahtawï made his own sense of banishment clear to Taylor. He asserted that he was not truly on a mission to create a school of languages in Khartoum; after all, a year and a half had passed and “no order had been received from Cairo relative to the College.” The uncertainty, the inactivity, and the climate, Taylor wrote, contributed to the deaths of two of the other professors exiled with al-Tahtawï, who foresaw for himself a similar fate. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 231

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing interest in colonial tools; Egyptian exile to Sudan shows how Egypt used Sudan as an internal periphery — resonates with later British uses of both territories.