Sanü`a’s comedy depicted the fearful Nubian servant guarding his exiled master

Evidence

As the servant of Abü Nazzara, Muhammad guards his employer against the aggressive surveillance of the government’s men sent by a khedive who has become deeply suspicious of Sanüa's involvement in clandestine political activities. Muhammad and Abü Nazzara stand at more than just the doorway of the latter's rooms: they stand at the threshold of Sanüa’s actual exile-this was the first issue of Abü Nazzara Zarqa to be published after the writer’s banishment to Paris. Despite the Nubian’s claims that such emotions were foreign to him, he is clearly afraid, and Abü Nazzara pater- 1. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 329

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sanü`a’s Nubian characters deflected Egyptian anger toward Ottoman rulers
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Sanü`a’s Nubian characters deflected Egyptian anger toward Ottoman rulers