Egyptians feared being viewed by Europe as colonizable like Sudan

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Egyptian nationalists held a Janus-faced worldview of being colonized yet colonizing.; By 1882 Egyptians realized Europe ranked them closer to Africa than Europe; Egyptians under Muhammad Ali internalized empire as they mapped Sudan (+11 more)

Related

• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.92)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination (similarity 0.92)
• Egypt positioned itself alongside Europe by measuring Sudan as backward (similarity 0.90)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.89)
• Egyptians grew uneasy that Europeans ranked Egypt as African and colonizable. (similarity 0.89)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Sudan meant exile for some Egyptians and promotion for others (similarity 0.88)
• Fawzï’s Sudanese captors paradoxically cemented his colonizer identity (similarity 0.87)
• Lutfï al-Sayyid equated Egyptian and Sudanese subjection to shared autocratic rule (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptians under Muhammad Ali internalized empire as they mapped Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Voyaging to Sudan made al-Tunisï first experience himself as foreign (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian nationalists held a Janus-faced worldview of being colonized yet colonizing. (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptians feared being racialized as African and thus vulnerable to colonization like Sudan (similarity 0.86)
• Egypt ran its own colonial empire in Sudan from 1821 to 1884 (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan #expands (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527
• Egyptians produced their own Orientalist discourse about the Sudan and Africa #exemplifies (0.55)
• Egyptian nationalists redefined the Sudan as part of Egypt to mask colonial domination #qualifies (0.50)
• Egyptian nationalists reproduced stereotypes about Sudan paralleling Orientalist imagery #exemplifies (0.50)