Mehmed Ali staged propaganda scenes to feed Istanbul misleading reports

Evidence

See, for example, the interesting account of staging an interview with some “Jerusalem notables” in the presence of some Ottoman visitors asking Mehmed Ali to interfere in Syria. As expected, the story was transmitted to Istanbul and relayed back to the Pasha via one of his agents there. See Bahr Barra 11/31, on 5 Ca 1242/5 December 1826. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 343

Categorization

• SHARE: A wonderfully specific anecdote showing the Pasha manufacturing a pretext for Syrian intervention by manipulating Ottoman intelligence channels.
• SEED: Angle: political theater as statecraft — how a provincial governor manufactured consent signals to a distant imperial capital.