Arabi Pasha
A Dictionary of World History | Date: 2000
Arabi Pasha (Egyptian name Ahmad Urabi Pasha al-Misri; 1839–1911) Egyptian nationalist leader. A conscript in the Egyptian army, he rose to the rank of colonel in the Egyptian-Ethiopian War (1875–76). In 1879 he took part in an officers' revolt against the Turkish governor of Egypt and led a further revolt in 1881. In 1882, when Britain and France intervened at the request of Khedive Tawfiq, by bombarding the city of Alexandria, he organized a nationalist resistance movement. The British defeated him at TEL-EL-KEBIR and exiled him to Sri Lanka. He returned to Egypt in 1901.
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