Domesticating Egypt: The Gendered Politics of the British Occupation
Domesticating Egypt: The Gendered Politics of the British Occupation
In 1882, the British occupation of Egypt and official Anglo-Egyptian rule began. Supposedly, the British reacted to the anti-foreign sentiment which characterized Egypt's political climate in the early 1800s and that showed to threaten British foreign trade. In response to an outbreak of rioting targeted at Europeans in the harbor city of Alexandria earlier that summer, the British fleet landed troops off Egypt's northern coast in order to quell the riots and restore order. In the same year, a number of battles took place between the Egyptian and British peoples. The Egyptians who participated in the rebellion rallied under the slogan “Egypt for the Egyptians” and in support of Ahmed 'Urabi, who proposed the creation of a constitutional regime.
Keywords: Alexandria, anti-foreign sentiment, rioting, British people, Egyptians, Ahmed 'Urabi
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