Financial investment in training shaped Mehmed Ali’s rulings on punishing students

Evidence

Financial constraints seem also to be behind the turning of a blind eye to the law in the following case involving Mohtar Bey, the first Director of the Schools Department. The case related to a serious incident concerning one of the students of the Translations School, Captain Abdallah by name, who dared to verbally abuse and hit the Director of the school, Rifā’a Bey al-Ṭahṭāwī, himself. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 921