Prisoned Egyptian and Sudanese figures alike lectured on the nature of colonial power.

Evidence

This description also shows the parallels between al- Zubayr Pasha and Ibrahïm Fawzï, who was himself caught in a triangle of loyalties and allegiances, whose abilities were quite singular, and who also used a prison setting to discuss the nature of governmental power and the meaning of colonialism. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 566

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

• XREF: Ties the Egyptians-in-Sudan story back to the broader motif of colonized voices theorizing colonial power.

Related

• Egyptian captives shared religion and language with Sudanese yet suffered status inversion keenly (similarity 0.85)
• Exiled elites imprisoned by colonial powers used prison to theorize about governance. (similarity 0.85)
• The Sudan served simultaneously as Egypt’s penal exile and its soldiers’ promotion ground (similarity 0.84)
• Sudanese and Nubians moved into Egyptian cities as colonial subjects arrived (similarity 0.82)
• A pro-independence Egyptian soldier and a Sudanese slave trader each publicized their nationalist captivity. (similarity 0.82)
• Sudanese elites debated unity with Egypt under British surveillance (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian nationalists could be colonizers in Sudan while colonized at home (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian colonial writers justified domination by styling Sudanese identity as deficient (similarity 0.82)
• Shared language and religion did not erase the Egyptian-Sudanese status hierarchy (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian captives in Omdurman shared language and faith with Sudanese while preserving rank distinctions (similarity 0.82)
• Egyptian rule made Sudan the first interior African region to feel Western colonial tensions. (similarity 0.81)
• An Egyptian soldier leveraged European co-eyewitnesses to legitimate his Sudanese captivity account (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian popular culture dissolved the Sudan into an Egyptian backyard (similarity 0.81)
• Egypt was simultaneously a British colony and a colonizer of Sudan. (similarity 0.81)
• Lutfï al-Sayyid equated Egyptian and Sudanese subjection to shared autocratic rule (similarity 0.81)