State & Barracks · Jul 2, 2026

Building Khartoum, Losing Sudan

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Egyptian Officers, Colonial Sudan, and the Story of an Imperial Project That Ended in Expulsion

This book review is part of a series on the history of the Egyptian army in Sudan.

Published in Alexandria in 1936 at the expense of Prince Omar Toussoun, Mudhakkiratān ʿan aʿmāl al-ǧaysh al-Miṣrī fī al-Sūdān wa maʾsāt khurūǧihi minhu (Two Memoirs on the Activities of the Egyptian Army in Sudan and the Tragedy of Its Withdrawal) is a compact but revealin…

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