Ismail Pasha

Interpretive Research Paper-Egyptian Ruling Elite The country I studied during this project was Egypt, and the character I was assigned to was Ismail Pasha, who was part of the Ruling Elite. Ismail was the son of Ibrahim Pasha, who took the throne after Said Pasha’s death. He ruled Egypt from 1863 to 1879. He began his rule halfway through the American Civil War, when Egypt experienced an immense growth in cotton trade, due to the unavailability …

…and Egypt was no longer its own country. Khedives still ruled it, but they were mainly there for show. The British were in control now. So Egypt tied into the Industrial revolution because it temporarily replaced the United States of America in the ever important cotton industry, and because it was essentially controlled by powerhouse Britain. Egypt didn’t gain nominal independence until 1922, eight years after the industrial revolution. Finally, in 1953, Egypt became a republic.