Egyptians produced their own Orientalist-style stereotypes about Sudan and Africa.

Evidence

What my study challenges in Said’s work is the idea that Egyptians suffered in silence, the idea that many in Egypt did not themselves engage in a discourse of stereotypes and fantasies about the Sudan specifically and Africa in general, a discourse that paralleled Orientalist imagery. Although he wrote many pages on the objectification of Egypt in European literature, Said did not include in Orientalism a single sample of Egyptian literature or a discussion of Egyptians’ long history of creative and eventually successful response to the British occupation. Even had he included such material, Said would have had to address other levels of often contradictory discourse, particularly in reference to the Sudan. As Ania Loomba writes, “‘Colonialism’ is not just something that happens from outside a country or a people, not just something that operates with the collusion of forces inside, but a version of it can be duplicated from within.” — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 75

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s comparative colonial framework: the idea that Egyptians reproduced Orientalist discourse toward Sudan is a key mechanism distinguishing the two territories’ colonial experiences, echoing sub-imperial dynamics seen in India and the Americas. — connects to: Egyptians learned empire by drawing sharper distinctions from Sudan; Egyptian elites built Westernized schools to forge a protonationalist identity; Egyptian and British stereotypes of Sudan as savage persisted unchanged for decades (+11 more)
• DEFINE: The Loomba quote defines ‘duplicated colonialism’ — a version of colonialism reproduced from within a colonized society.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 75

Broader Connections

• Egyptian national self-exploration still stereotyped Nubians and Sudanese as blank buffoons #exemplifies (0.75)
• Sudanese and Egyptians reciprocally held condescension and resentment shaped by colonial hierarchies. #corroborates (0.70)
• Egyptians conflated Nubian, Sudanese, and Ethiopian identities in racial terms #expands (0.60)