The Egyptian nationalist press did not like the message of Hadärat al- südän and responded angrily to the London trip made by the famous Sudanese sayyids, but their protest was irrelevant: the members of this del- egation were old enemies and were not expected to be reliable participants in an Egyptian-Sudanese nationalist movement.

Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Coloni…, loc. 843