Sudan meant exile for some Egyptians and promotion for others

Evidence

A further irony in the situation was the way Fawzï justified his right to high rank through his actions as a colonizing officer of the Egyptian army. If anything clearly emerges from these parallels it is that the idea of colonialism was much more fluid, much less dependent on the European model. After all, Egyptians in 1882 were negotiators familiar with the Ottoman Empire and fearful of the threat of European colonization, and yet also eager to see themselves as a nation in a synonymous position of power. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Conquering the Sudan gave Egyptians a stronger sense of nation — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 127; Egyptian soldiers felt the loss of Sudan more personally than other Egyptians did.; Fawzï’s Sudanese captors paradoxically cemented his colonizer identity (+8 more)

Related

• Fawzï’s Sudanese captors paradoxically cemented his colonizer identity (similarity 0.90)
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects (similarity 0.89)
• Egypt’s colonizing of Sudan functioned as a non-European imperial imagination (similarity 0.88)
• The Sudan served simultaneously as Egypt’s penal exile and its soldiers’ promotion ground (similarity 0.88)
• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptians feared being viewed by Europe as colonizable like Sudan (similarity 0.88)
• Egyptian soldiers felt the loss of Sudan more personally than other Egyptians did. (similarity 0.87)
• Sudan simultaneously built Egyptian national identity and signified exile from it (similarity 0.87)
• Egypt ran its own colonial empire in Sudan from 1821 to 1884 (similarity 0.87)
• Voyaging to Sudan made al-Tunisï first experience himself as foreign (similarity 0.86)
• Egyptian satirists linked Sudanese conquest to Egypt’s own subjugation (similarity 0.86)
• Egypt was simultaneously colonized by Britain and eager to recolonize the Sudan. (similarity 0.86)
• The khedive shut down reformist societies and exiled members to Sudan (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian rulers exiled rivals to the Sudan as a penal colony (similarity 0.84)
• The Sudan saw even Arabic-speaking Egyptians as foreign Turks. (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Egypt functioned simultaneously as colonized and colonizer of Sudan #expands (0.75) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 527
• Some Egyptians saw themselves as empire builders in Sudan, not merely colonial subjects #expands (0.70)
• Egyptian rulers exiled rivals to Sudan’s penal camps since Muhammad Ali #corroborates (0.70)
• Egypt deployed Sudan as an internal penal and exile site #corroborates (0.65)
• Egyptian resentment stemmed from losing mastery over the Sudanese #contradicts (0.50)