Popular Egyptian song expressed nationalist sentiments about the Sudan through invented Nubian characters.

Evidence

In this version, the Nubian servant sings the song, and, as Mahmud Ahmad al-Hafna writes in his biography of Darwïsh, no other song was performed as often or expressed as clearly Egyptians’ sentiments about the Sudan. Here are excerpts from the song as it appeared after Khayrï and Darwïsh met and reworked the original lyrics: There is nothing named Egypt, and nothing named the Sudan. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 865