Egyptian writers viewed Egypt as nested within three simultaneous empires.

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 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
  • XREF: connects to: Sanü`a saw Egypt as simultaneously inside three empires including its own Sudan colony; Egypt sat inside three nested empires simultaneously; Egyptian writers occupied a colonialist limbo between Ottoman and British rule (+6 more)

Broader Connections