Francophone Egyptian Nationalists, Anti-British Discourse, and European Public Opinion, 1885-1910

The Case of Mustafa Kamil and Ya'qub Sannu

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12457227
AutoresZiad Fahmy (0000-0003-1756-6791, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen28
Número1
Páginas170-183
Fecha de publicación2008-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaComparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1089-201X • E-ISSN: 1548-226X
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/1089201x-2007-063
OpenAlexW1999185763
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas6

This article analyzes how Egyptian nationalists utilized a European propaganda campaign aimed at combating and delegitimizing British colonial rule. In particular, it focuses on Ya'qub Sannu”s (1839-1912) and Mustafa Kamil's (1874-1908) political activities in late-nineteenth- to early-twentieth-century France. Aside from writing dozens of newspaper articles and letters appearing in the French press, both men conducted interviews, made countless speeches, and held many conferences and presentations throughout France and Europe in their continuing attempts at externally forcing a resolution to the Egyptian question. In examining many of these discourses, this article takes into account Sannu”s and Kamil's manipulations of European colonial rivalries, their repeated Francophile appeals, and their frequent exploitation of Anglophobic discourse. Through examining some of the “foreign policy” resistance strategies of colonized intellectuals, the article expands the geographic playing field of colonial-colonized encounters and contestations from the colonies to the heart of the metropole

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