In the land of the pharaohs: a short history of Egypt from the fall of Ismail to the assassination of Boutros Pasha
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| In the land of the pharaohs: a short history |
In attempting to write a history, I am quite aware of the difficulties which beset my path, inasmuch as there are so many " histories " of Egypt. Many of these histories are wise, and not a few, otherwise; but each and everyone for the most part is prejudicial to Home Rule in Egypt, and is wanting in that chief historical element^impartiahty.
For upwards of a quarter of a century I have noted the continual growth of misrepresentation in the English Press touching Egyptian affairs, and the Roosevelt Guildhall peroration has proved the last straw of a most weighty bundle.
That I am qualified to deal adequately with the period under consideration, there need be little doubt. In the first place, I am a native Egyptian with a full knowledge of the aims of my fellow-countrymen, and consequently in sympathy with their sufferings — socially and politically. In the second place, not only was I in the city of Alexandria during its bombardment, but the fact that my father was an officer
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