In Kämil’s representation, the British wiped away the names and mem- ory of the Egyptian dead in the Sudan as they engraved their own mark on the region with the letters of Gordon’s name. With the collusion of the Egyptian public, this action succeeded in rendering anonymous Egypt’s role in the reclamation of the Sudan or, as Kämil suggests, in rendering Egypt flagless there. British officials used their power to distort the name and rep- utation of the Egyptian people by asserting that it was Egyptians, especially nationalists, who were fanatical and beyond the pale of self-control. This projected an image of Egyptian savagery

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 749