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    al sokra the slavery of the Suez Canal Archived Message

    Posted by Subhi on June 6, 2020, 5:44 pm, in reply to "Re: Marco Williams "Banished" Dreadful story, Subhi. NOM"

    There is a lot of ill feeling in my area in Egypt about this as some people here including relatives of mine acted as agents and facilitated the traffiking of forced labour or slaves very many died digging the canal few ever returned home, they lived and died outside history being of no account.


    "Nassers complex legacy"

    "Many aficionados of Arab cinema recall a famous scene in Nasser 56, the film made to commemorate the Suez war of 1956. An old Egyptian woman from Upper Egypt, the region from which Gamal Abdel Nasser hails, gets a chance to talk to Nasser in private. She hands him a wretched, flimsy pair of trousers which used to belong to her grandfather. She tells Nasser that the man was, like millions of Egyptian youths, taken from his village to al-sokhra (slavery) to join the brigades digging the Suez canal. And like many of those millions, he never returned; he died young, far away from his family and his home.

    "Why did he die? For what? And who brought such death upon him?", she exclaimed. Since then, generations had passed, yet the Suez canal - for which her grandfather had died - remained in the hands of the khawagat (foreigners). He, Nasser, having nationalised the Suez Canal Company..."

    https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nassers_complex_legacy/

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