Huda Shaarawi publicly opposed Zaghlul’s Sudan concessions and led Nile Valley unity advocacy

Evidence

But her activism overshadowed her husband’s in a variety of ways, including her capacity to organize Egyptian women into demonstrations against the British in 1919, her founding of the Egyptian Feminist Union in 1923, and her own public unveiling, also in 1923. She became a more visible public figure during the years of the Wafd’s rise to political power and, once Zaghlül became prime minister of Egypt in 1921, she openly criticized what she considered his increasing willingness to negotiate with the British over the Sudan. 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. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 847

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the reader’s comparative Egypt/Sudan colonial project: an Egyptian feminist using Sudan unity as a political lever.