For decades, the doctrine of the 'Unity of the Nile Valley' united Egyptians of a variety of political and nationalist backgrounds. Many Egyptians regarded Sudan as an integral part of their homeland, and therefore battled to rid the entire Nile Valley of British imperialism and unite its inhabitants under the Egyptian crown. Here, Rami Ginat provides a vital and important revised account of the history of Egypt's colonialist struggle and their efforts to prove categorically that the Nile Valley constituted a single territorial unit. These were clustered around several dominant theoretical layers: history, geography, economy, culture and ethnography. This book, for both Middle Eastern and African historians, uses a mixture of Arabic and English sources to critically examine the central stages in the historical development of Egypt's doctrine, concentrating on the defining decade (1943-1953) that first witnessed both the pinnacle of the doctrine's struggle and the subsequent shattering of a consensual nationalist dream.

几十年来，"尼罗河谷统一 "的理论将各种政治和民族主义背景的埃及人团结起来。许多埃及人认为苏丹是他们祖国不可分割的一部分，因此为使整个尼罗河谷摆脱英帝国主义并将其居民统一在埃及王室之下而斗争。在这里，拉米-吉纳特对埃及殖民主义斗争的历史以及他们为明确证明尼罗河谷构成一个单一的领土单位所做的努力提供了一个重要的修订说明。这些努力集中在几个主导的理论层面：历史、地理、经济、文化和人种学。对于中东和非洲的历史学家来说，这本书使用了阿拉伯语和英语的混合资料，批判性地研究了埃及学说历史发展的核心阶段，集中于决定性的十年（1943-1953），这十年首先见证了学说斗争的巅峰和随后一个共识的民族主义梦想的破灭。