The Pasha: How Mehemet Ali Defied the West, 1839–1841 - Letitia W. Ufford - Google Books

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With striking parallels to recent confrontations in Iraq, this is the story of the first Western international coalition to suppress an aggressive Middle Eastern ruler. The challenger was Mehemet Ali Pasha, called the founder of modern Egypt. Convinced…