Tuesday, April 12, 2011

The specter of Egypt's colonial interior

by Aaron Jakes -- Monday, 11 April, 2011In the spring of 1896, the British Consul-General and de facto colonial overlord of Egypt, Lord Cromer, submitted his annual report to Parliament on the "Progress of Reforms" in the preceding year. Among the proudest accomplishments he sought to advertise was a wholesale reorganization of the Ministry of the Interior. A streamlined administrative hierarchy

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