for Ahmed are not in any way black or white, their boundaries are indefinable just like the people who embody and use them. Ahmed had a fundamentally European education. (23). She was raised in a home full of books, she read the British classics and set her sights on Cambridge at an early age. In later years her doctoral dissertation was on Edward William Lane, a 19th century British Orientalist whose work was considered objectionable by some Arab nationalists, but was greatly admired by Ahmed. (231). Although Egypt was not strictly speaking a British colony, it was under Britain's invasive sponsorship until the 1952 revolution that ultimately brought Gamal Abdel Nasser to power. (7) Ahmed's experience of the disintegration of European imperialism is wrought with many painful occurrences. ------Ahmed is subtlety critical of Gamal Abdel Nassar (164), with understandable reason. For Ahmed the revolution was directly related to the upheaval of her family life. Her father was denied his occupation due to his opposition of Nasser's Aswan High Dam project. He was an educated civil engineer who saw the project as being politically motivated and negligent. (165). However, due to the dominance of severe nationalism his resistance was viewed as a hostile form of treason. Consequently, government harassment of the family proceeded, almost costing Ahmed her opportunity to realize her dream of attending University overseas. Ahmed's views on the Nasser's revolution were not complimentary, she believes the revolution blinded her people with high ideals that were far from attainable, no one was allowed to question Nasser, she writes, "In Egypt henceforth there would be no bar to Nasser's doing whatever he wanted – anyone even mildly critical of him was purged or somehow or other silenced or got rid of." (172)....