But as his harsh criti- cism of more populist artists reveals, Taymür's sense of political unity con- flicted with his deeper sense of, and belief in, hierarchies of class. Beneath the challenging questions Taymür put to his audience about changing social morals, particularly about drug use and adultery, Taymür's true question asked which class of Egyptians would lead Egypt into modernity.

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 944