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"Despite their promise not to involve Egypt in the war effort, Britain ended up bringing about half a million Egyptian men, predominantly from rural communities, into the Egyptian Labor Corps (ELC), which worked across Europe and the Middle East during World War I. The ELC performed tasks such as loading and unloading ships in France, running camel supply lines in Syria and Palestine, and building railroads across the Sinai Desert. Despite their enormous contributions to the war effort and the creation of infrastructures that lasted long after the war, the ELC, along with other "coloured" labor forces from colonized areas, were rarely recognized or commemorated in any official capacity, with the bulk of the attention going to the white solders. Scholars have only just started to pay attention to non-white laborers and soldiers during that war, and Anderson adds to this effort through his study of the ELC, culminating in the role of these dissatisfied rural workers in the revolution of 1919, which eventually led to Egypt's independence"--

World War, 1914-1918 --- Egyptians --- Conscript labor --- Social aspects --- Campaigns --- Race identity --- History. --- Great Britain. --- Minorities --- Social conditions --- Egyptian history, First World War, 1919 Egyptian Revolution, British Empire, Egypt, modern Egypt, Modern middle east, anti-Blackness, race in Egypt, race in the middle east. --- 1914-1918 --- Middle East --- Egypt

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