Many sections of her memoirs discuss this issue and her desire to play a leading role in the struggle to achieve the unity of the Nile Valley. But why did she propagate this issue so strongly, to the point where, as she her- self wrote, the issue of the Sudan began to appear synonymous with the issue of women's rights in Egypt? How did she translate the personal into the political?

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 847