"A revelation in the text—new to this reviewer and perhaps to other readers—is that the pan-Arab women’s movement that included these Egyptian representatives had its origins in the Palestinian national struggle of 1936–39."

“Elhalaby, a historian, explores the many ways Arab intellectuals engaged with India during the twentieth century, when peoples across Asia struggled under European colonization and then threw it off. . . . The book has a tragic tone. According to Elhalaby, the question of Palestine was central to Arab thinkers who sought solidarity with India, and the future of the Palestinians remains extremely precarious.”

“Parting Gifts of Empire succeeds in highlighting urgent debates about how anti-colonial knowledge was produced, circulated, and constrained by imperial structures. The book’s challenge to methodological nationalism and attention to intellectual exchange is an important intervention that will undoubtedly shape future conversations on decolonization, internationalism, and the legacies of empire.”