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Muhmmad Rushdi had been spying for five months. As he traversed the Nile Delta, he penned weekly reports of his findings for the young Khedive ʿAbbas Hilmi II. Most often, he detailed the foibles and misdeeds of the provincial officials that the British had appointed to do their bidding. But prior to his foray into clandestine service, the wandering informant had worked as the manager of a large agricultural estate belonging to the current Minister of Finance Ahmad Mazlum Pasha. That previous vocation had prepared Rushdi better than his fellow spies to assess the economic condition of the countryside after a dozen years of foreign occupation. What he saw enraged him. Writing from the city of Mansurah, a major hub of the inland cotton trade, Rushdi reflected on the implications of a recent economic slump. A bumper crop in the United States had caused Egypt's fine, long-staple cotton to lose a third of its value since the last harvest. In their determination to "make a boom for foreign Chapter 2

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN