On Contagion : Sudanese Refugees, HIV/AIDS, and the Social Order in Egypt

Imagining Citizens

“…10 The authorities hoped to excuse the violence of the dispersal with claims that the camp was a source of moral and physical corruption, notably AIDS and crime. 11 Many of the same accusations were later directed at the Rab a al-Adawiya demonstration. The Sudanese, like the demonstrators in Rab a al-Adawiya, were at some point part of the national community and enjoyed some measure of sympathy, but the government mobilized disgust and fear to excuse its violence.…”