File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2002/postcolonial.0205, message 196


From: "Waiel A" <waiel1998-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Personification of Colonialism
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 22:22:09 +0000



Egypt was not part of the Ottoman Empire at the time the book was written 
and indeed it was not governed by "Turkish Pashas" then.

About the book itself, I think it was fairly common among intellectuals of 
the time to stress the "Egyptiannees" of Egypt which would mean either that 
Egypt is not Arab or is not *only* Arab. Some of the major thinkers and 
writers of the time, Tawfeek El Hakeem and indeed Naguib Mahfouz himself, 
tended to view Egypt as not an integral part of an "Arab world". besides, 
national sentiments at the first half of the 20th century, including those 
expressed in the anti-colonialism 1919 Revolution, were mainly Egyptian in 
nature (and not Arab). And the word "Al Umma" (the nation) would be mainly 
used to refer to the Egyptians.

waiel

>From: chemicalis <chemicalis-AT-yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: Personification of Colonialism
>Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:44:56 -0700 (PDT)
>
>yes I agree with you that the period of Modernization
>was complex and he didnot call for imitation, but for
>learning from the European model. do you think his
>call is motivated by the negative tensions between the
>Egyptians (especially intellectuals) and the Turkish
>Pashas ruling Egypt, who were regarding themselves
>"superior" in race, etc. than the "Arabs"?
>was he calling for resisting the Ottomans  by revising
>Egypt's "identity"? Was he resisting
>Arabism/nationalism that many intellectuals were
>urging for at that time? but, what would arguing that
>"Egypt's links with theMediterranean/Western world
>were multifaceted and ran deep in history" do to Egypt
>at that time?
>
>samia
>


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