AHC: Great Power Egypt

With a PoD no earlier than 1730, make Egypt a Great Power* by March 22,2014.

*In the OTL 21st century sense. It doesn't have to be a superpower, but it has to be at least as strong as OTL France, Germany, Britain, or Japan.
 
Interesting. I have to ask though, what king of Great Powers are we talking about? Germany and Japan are economic Great Powers while France and Britain are more well rounded.
 
The Oriental Crisis of 1840 goes differently and Muhammed Ali gains de jure independence from the Ottomans along with the Arabian coast and most of the previously defected Ottoman Navy.
 
The Oriental Crisis of 1840 goes differently and Muhammed Ali gains de jure independence from the Ottomans along with the Arabian coast and most of the previously defected Ottoman Navy.

Going off that From their Egypt becomes a champion of arab nationalism. I wonder far it would be in getting arabs to be seen as "european"
 
Could Egypt be a great power? It has a huge population relative to the Middle East but it doesn't have many natural resources, not even trees so it seems industrialization would be out of the question.
 
Top