Urabi RevoltEgypt · 1879–1882“Draw near — the atlas keeps this thread, and tonight the fire lends it a voice.”Colonel Ahmed Urabi, a fellah's son risen through the ranks, stood before the khedive and said the words Egypt kept: God created us free. Behind him stood an army tired of Turkish-circle privilege and a country mortgaged to European bondholders, its treasury supervised by its creditors.