The Suez Canal's early years, under the shadow of the French and British empires
'Suez, a historic canal' (3/6). From 1880 to 1914, Egypt received less than 1% of the revenue generated by the Suez Canal Company. That income illustrated the United Kingdom's and France's domination of the waterway's management at the beginning of the 20th century.
We haven't written up this one. Le Monde English has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.