Egyptian satirists linked Sudanese conquest to Egypt’s own subjugation

Evidence

A further irony in the situation was the way Fawzï justified his right to high rank through his actions as a colonizing officer of the Egyptian army. If anything clearly emerges from these parallels it is that the idea of colonialism was much more fluid, much less dependent on the European model. After all, Egyptians in 1882 were negotiators familiar with the Ottoman Empire and fearful of the threat of European colonization, and yet also eager to see themselves as a nation in a synonymous position of power. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Mahdist rebellion forced Egyptian satirists to redraw Sudanese images; Sudanese caricatures in Egyptian popular culture coincided with Sudanese anti-British revolt; Egypt’s own colonizing of Sudan shaped its sense of nationhood (+11 more)

Related

• The castrated Sudanese eunuch symbolized Egypt’s own subjection to Ottoman rule (similarity 0.91)
• Egypt ran its own colonial empire in Sudan from 1821 to 1884 (similarity 0.87)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination (similarity 0.87)
• Sudan meant exile for some Egyptians and promotion for others (similarity 0.86)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptians feared being viewed by Europe as colonizable like Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.86)
• Sudanese caricatures in Egyptian popular culture coincided with Sudanese anti-British revolt (similarity 0.85)
• Lutfï al-Sayyid equated Egyptian and Sudanese subjection to shared autocratic rule (similarity 0.85)
• Sudanese military success forced Egyptian satirists to redraw the Sudanese as respected warriors. (similarity 0.85)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.85)
• Fawzï’s Sudanese captors paradoxically cemented his colonizer identity (similarity 0.85)
• Sanü`a saw Egypt as simultaneously inside three empires including its own Sudan colony (similarity 0.84)
• Egypt simultaneously became a British colony and lost its own Sudanese colony in 1884 (similarity 0.84)
• `Alï `abd al-Latïf’s erasure mirrored the caricature of Sudanese in Egyptian culture. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan #corroborates (0.80) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527
• Egypt’s own colonizing of Sudan shaped its sense of nationhood #expands (0.75)
• Sanu’a used the castrated Sudanese eunuch to symbolize Egyptian political impotence. #corroborates (0.70)
• The Mahdist rebellion forced Egyptian satirists to redraw Sudanese images #corroborates (0.65)
• Egypt simultaneously became a British colony and lost its own Sudanese colony in 1884 #corroborates (0.65)
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalist writers used fictional Sudanese voices to claim sovereignty over the Sudan #expands (0.60)
• Egyptian resentment stemmed from losing mastery over the Sudanese #corroborates (0.60)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery #expands (0.55)
• Egyptian nationalists reclaimed Sudan as Egypt’s colonial right by conquest. #expands (0.55)
• Sudanese caricatures in Egyptian popular culture coincided with Sudanese anti-British revolt #expands (0.50)
• The castrated Sudanese eunuch symbolized Egypt’s own subjection to Ottoman rule #expands (0.50)
• Egyptian officers simultaneously suffered British supervision and pursued Egypt’s own civilizing mission in Sudan. #expands (0.50)