the suburb felt a sense of solidarity with him due to the fact that they were a part of New Orleans which sought to separate from the city. The Gaza Strip has a coastal road named Ahmed Orabi Street. Colombo'a , Sri Lanka, has an Orabi Pasha Street in its central district. Kandy, Sri Lanka, is home to the Orabi Pasha Cultural Centre. Quotes "How can you enslave people when their mothers bore them free?". The reference is: Once a governor of Egypt punished a non-Muslim wrongly, the case was brought to the caliph of time i.e. Umar ibn ul Khattab (the second Caliph of Islam), the Muslim governor was proven to be wrong, Umar told the non Muslim to punish the governor in same fashion, after it Umar said: Since when have you considered people as your slaves? Although their mothers gave birth to them as free living people. "Allah has created us free, and did not make us into heritage or estate. So by Allah, the only god, we shall be bequeathed or enslaved no more" Notes The earliest published work of Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory – later to embrace Irish Nationalism and have an important role in the cultural life of Ireland – was Arabi and His Household (1882), a pamphlet (originally a letter to The Times newspaper) in support of ʻUrabi. References Further reading Huffaker, Shauna. "Representations of Ahmed Urabi: Hegemony, Imperialism, and the British Press, 1881–1882." Victorian Periodicals Review 45.4 (2012): 375-405. External links 1841 births 1911 deaths Egyptian Muslims 19th-century prime ministers of Egypt 19th-century rebels Al-Azhar University alumni Prime Ministers of Egypt Defence Ministers of Egypt Egyptian nationalists Egyptian soldiers Egyptian revolutionaries People from Zagazig People of the 'Urabi revolt Egyptian exiles People from Sharqia Governorate Egyptian prisoners sentenced to death Egyptian pashas Egyptian rebels Egyptian independence activists