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The military occupation of Egypt exposed the British government to charges of self-interest and the betrayal of Britain's liberal political principles. This book is a comprehensive portrait of the British colony in Egypt, which also takes a fresh look at the examples of colonial cultures memorably enshrined in Edward W. Said's classic
As has been said, it is difficult to recall an authentic historical voice. Lower-class experience was mediated through elite discourses. Likewise, the colonial and colonised identities were not isolated, but interrelated by the nature of the cultural ‘dialogue’ that colonialism created. 1 Egyptian elites and British colonials collaborated before the First World War, often
projects. An itinerary of sorts appeared coincidentally at the zenith of empire, with the publication of Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company's catalogue in 1909: Twentieth Century Impressions of Egypt: Its History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources . The editor-in-chief was Arnold Wright, a journalist who had travelled widely across the empire, including Australia, India, and
It would be incorrect to identify the origin of the British colony with the military occupation of 1882. Nor is there an origin in the sense of a founding script of the colony, like the Boer Treks. But there is an origin in the sense of the conditions that enabled Britons to travel to Egypt and establish residency. From that perspective, it is difficult to determine when the
The Egyptian expedition of 1882 was the last time that the British army marched to battle in redcoats. It was also, so it was said, the first time the British army demonstrated the kind of unblinking calculation to annihilate the enemy later recorded at Omdurman. Although not genocidal, the large-scale slaughter, including the killing of those in flight and the injured, was regarded
Herbert Addison was lecturing on engineering at Leeds University when one of his students, ‘Abd al-Majid ‘Umar, recruited him to teach at the Egyptian state school of engineering in 1921. He arrived in the midst of a political crisis. The revolt of 1919 had undermined the Protectorate, and the government of Lloyd George was involved in fruitless negotiations with Egyptian
France and Israel against Egypt meant that most British passport-holders were expelled from Egypt after the failed invasion. Some of the exceptions were those married to Egyptians. Samir Rafaat identified eight such British women living in Ma’adi in 1956, mostly recent arrivals who had met their spouses while studying in Britain. 3 Others were performing jobs that Egyptians could not fill. The British
In the spring of 1882 the Egyptian crisis was coming to the boil just as there was an attempt on Queen Victoria's life in London. But these events paled in the public imagination against the plan by London's Regent's Park Zoo to sell Jumbo the elephant to P.T. Barnum of the famed Barnum & Bailey Circus. Jumbo's story embodies elements of Britain's relations with Egypt
Introduction Whereas most of this volume focuses on the impact of lower oil prices on the Middle East and North Africa's (MENA) oil-rich and predominantly rentier economies, this chapter examines Egypt as a peculiar case of semi-rentierism with a resilient dependency on hydrocarbon rents in the external and state sectors. Semi-rentierism is an asymmetrical dependency of generally resource-poor economies on hydrocarbon-based rents in the mode of insertion in the global division of labour through trade and capital flows, as
Golden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c. 300 BCE–200 CE). This beautifully illustrated book, featuring photography by Julia Thorne, accompanies Manchester Museum’s first-ever international touring exhibition. Golden Mummies of Egypt is a visually spectacular exhibition that offers visitors unparalleled access to the museum’s outstanding collection of Egyptian and Sudanese objects – one of the largest in the UK.