Balfour justifies the necessity and obligation for British occupation of Egypt when he equates supremacy with “our” knowledge of Egypt; the knowledge of “our” (English) superiority and their inferiority (Egyptian). Balfour’s self proclaimed knowledge of the Egyptian people came from his study of a civilization “from its origins to its prime to its decline.”(Said p.41) He believes that having knowledge of it, or the Oriental co

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