Blunt, a poet and traveller who knew the Egyptian reformers personally, tells from his own diaries how Britain came to occupy Egypt in 1882. He traces Ismail’s debts and the foreign financial control that followed, the reform party among the scholars of al-Azhar, the rise of Ahmed Urabi, and the diplomacy in London and Paris that ended in war.
A partisan but invaluable anti-imperialist record by an Englishman who took the Egyptian side. Download the free EPUB.