In a speech he gave in Toulouse, in July of 1895, Kämil presented an almost medical depiction of the violence committed against the Egyptian government by the British occupation gov- ernment in 1884, when, during the Mahdïya, the British forced the Egyptians to evacuate the Sudan,"the Sudan which we consider the spirit of our dear land, on which hangs the life of our country, and its death."

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 717