Ismail Pasha

Until Egypt's corrupt but tolerant monarchy was overthrown in 1952, the square was known as Midan El-Ismailiya after Ismail Pasha, the great 19th-century Egyptian Westernizer.

Is There an Arab George Washington? Bret Stephens 2011

He explained that all the land in Egypt is owned by the Khedive, Ismail Pasha.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

The Khedive, Ismail Pasha, is a grand modernizer, and in England I heard Mrs. Ross speak of him as a true progressive in the Arab world; indeed, that is how the majority of Frangi—the Egyptian word for Europeans—see him.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

They are deceived by this perception because it is partially true: since the time of the Pharaohs Egypt has been invaded and occupied and ruled from a distance, and even now, the Osmani Khedive, Ismail Pasha, who claims his independence from Constantinople, oversees the people as if they are his personal possessions, not a land, a people, in their own right.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

The fourteen-year-old heir to the Rothschild fortune arrived, traveling like a royal prince in a grand steamer with a huge entourage, his expenses paid by Ismail Pasha.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

Booking passage on a ship to Europe proved to be difficult; although we had heard nothing of it in Cairo, a cholera epidemic was sweeping Alexandria and anyone who could afford it was clamoring to leave the city, Ismail Pasha having fled abroad already.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

Ismail Pasha himself is there, they say, in his steamer.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

When he returned to Cairo with my Lady, he saw the fevered pitch of the building program; they said that Ismail Pasha would make Cairo into a city to rival Paris with his boulevards and his palaces and his gardens.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

THE CITY WAS CHANGING RAPIDLY; THE BANKS OF THE NILE HAD been made secure and the flood plain had given way to a vast building site as Ismail Pasha set out to fulfill his grand plan of turning Cairo into the Paris of Africa.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009

“Ismail Pasha will reward you,” he said once again.

The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger 2009