Fawzï’s Sudanese captors paradoxically cemented his colonizer identity

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 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Voyaging to Sudan made al-Tunisï first experience himself as foreign; Fawzï’s legitimacy as an officer rested on his colonial service in Sudan; Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527 (+4 more)

Related

• Voyaging to Sudan made al-Tunisï first experience himself as foreign (similarity 0.92)
• Sudan meant exile for some Egyptians and promotion for others (similarity 0.90)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan (similarity 0.90)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.89)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination (similarity 0.89)
• Fawzï’s legitimacy as an officer rested on his colonial service in Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptians feared being viewed by Europe as colonizable like Sudan (similarity 0.87)
• Soldiers’ Sudan experiences circulated privately until Fawzi published his memoirs (similarity 0.87)
• Egyptian satirists linked Sudanese conquest to Egypt’s own subjugation (similarity 0.85)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian nationalists could be colonizers in Sudan while colonized at home (similarity 0.84)
• The castrated Sudanese eunuch symbolized Egypt’s own subjection to Ottoman rule (similarity 0.84)
• Lutfï al-Sayyid equated Egyptian and Sudanese subjection to shared autocratic rule (similarity 0.84)
• An Egyptian soldier leveraged European co-eyewitnesses to legitimate his Sudanese captivity account (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian captives shared religion and language with Sudanese yet suffered status inversion keenly (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Fawzï’s legitimacy as an officer rested on his colonial service in Sudan #corroborates (0.70)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan #qualifies (0.55) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects #corroborates (0.50)
• Sudan meant exile for some Egyptians and promotion for others #complicates (0.45)