Lutfi al-Sayyid held colonizing the Sudan as Egypt’s exclusive right

Evidence

The Sudan is Egypt’s by right of conquest. She is a part of Egypt, and her not being separated is vital to Egypt’s life, due to her holding the source of the Nile and being her neighbor. We loathed giving her up, then she was reconquered, this time with the participation of the English. During all of that we were submissive to the contract of the Condominium and the triumphant power [England]. That administration is void before public opinion and the law. The arrangement of the Condominium alters nothing of the correct concept that all Egyptians hold dear, and that is that colonizing [isti`mär] the Sudan is the right of Egyptians, and no one else, just as the subsidizing of the Sudan is the duty of Egyptians, and no one else. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 766

Categorization

• XREF: The claim of Egypt’s ‘right of conquest’ over Sudan and the Nile-source logic directly serves the reader’s comparison of colonial ambitions in Egypt vs Sudan.