THE GROWING DEPENDENCE OF THE colonial project in Egypt on technologies of rule such as railways, tramways, and telegraphs—its “networked” nature—made it pervasive and effective. Yet it also opened up unforeseen avenues of anticolonial contestation for the Egyptian operators and users of these technologies. As a result, the technological aspects of colonialism in Egypt helped demarcate the spectrum of possibilities for anticolonial action and informed the shapes and foci of anticolonial modes of affinity, first and foremost nationalism. It has become commonplace to assume that by connecting distant places and peoples and creating a shared temporality, technological networks