khedives

In the crowded court room where the voices of poets, khedives, Sufi women, patriarchs, kings, pharaohs, presidents, courtiers and many others are heard, examination and interrogation sometimes turn into heated accusations and debates, since the defendants partake in the trial of the accused.

Naguib Mahfouz – The Son of Two Civilizations 2003

How many of us carry a metaphorical ton of circus dwarves around on our backs for a metaphorical British theatrical impresario, when what we should really be doing is stealing giant stone statues from corrupt Egyptian khedives by means of scientifically-placed explosive charges?

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2003

But his autocratic ways alienated the khedives and the spokesmen of Egyptian opinion.

1876, April 2001

Proud of their own self-determined independence, they were sympathetic to similar desires on the part of Samoan chiefs, Korean kings, Egyptian khedives, Armenian Christians, Brazilians, Venezuelans, and Chinese.

Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

Proud of their own self-determined independence, they were sympathetic to similar desires on the part of Samoan chiefs, Korean kings, Egyptian khedives, Armenian Christians, Brazilians, Venezuelans, and Chinese.

Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

Proud of their own self-determined independence, they were sympathetic to similar desires on the part of Samoan chiefs, Korean kings, Egyptian khedives, Armenian Christians, Brazilians, Venezuelans, and Chinese.

Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

Proud of their own self-determined independence, they were sympathetic to similar desires on the part of Samoan chiefs, Korean kings, Egyptian khedives, Armenian Christians, Brazilians, Venezuelans, and Chinese.

Interpretations of American History Gerald N. Grob 1967

The districts between the bridge, the Ezbekia [v. 04 p. 0954] and the Ismailia canal, are known as the Ismailia and Tewfikia quarters, after the khedives in whose reigns they were laid out.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Been to Butte to get a raise on it, but the fell khedives of commerce are jealous.

Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918

They see no reason why they themselves should not, Inshallah (by God's will), be some day officers, pashas, khedives, anything.

Three Months in the Soudan 1885