What my study challenges in Said's work is the idea that Egyptians suffered in silence, the idea that many in Egypt did not themselves engage in a dis- course of stereotypes and fantasies about the Sudan specifically and Africa in general, a discourse that paralleled Orientalist imagery. Although he wrote many pages on the objectification of Egypt in European literature, Said did not include in Orientalism a single sample of Egyptian literature or a discussion of Egyptians' long history of creative and eventually successful response to the British occupation.

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 75