The Egyptian nation emerged through violence, silence and exclusion.

Evidence

By catching its deserters, punishing its criminals, educating its youth, vaccinating its children, silencing its women, interning its insane, and by doing all this in a subtle, “humane” and “rational” manner … this is how the Egyptian nation came into being in modern times. It was by a process of violence, silence and exclusion that Egyptians were taught the essential truths of the nation. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1667

The Pasha’s army was above all crucial for the rise of the modern nation-state of Egypt by introducing practices that together changed the nature of the Egyptian state and its relationship to its “citizens” and completely transformed the very fabric of Egyptian society. By catching its deserters, punishing its criminals, educating its youth, vaccinating its children, silencing its women, interning its insane, and by doing all this in a subtle, “humane” and “rational” manner … this is how the Egyptian nation came into being in modern times. It was by a process of violence, silence and exclusion that Egyptians were taught the essential truths of the nation. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1694

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The inversion of nationalist founding narratives — the nation born of internal discipline rather than anticolonial struggle — resists one-sentence summary and rewards sitting with it.
• XREF: Chimes with the Goon Squad’s theme of violence and silence… more directly, it resonates with Foucault’s disciplinary society thesis familiar from the reader’s knowledge base.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1667; Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1694