Prisons let colonial rulers suppress resistance. [fact]
This description also shows the parallels between al- Zubayr Pasha and Ibrahïm Fawzï, who was himself caught in a triangle of loyalties and allegiances, whose abilities were quite singular, and who also used a prison setting to discuss the nature of governmental power and the meaning of colonialism.
Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 566