Mrs. Emily Wadih Nasrallah
The Sudanese woman has sent forth her voice... Sent it forth on high to every quarter of the inhabited world...
She has willed to search out her lost right, and to exercise her civil and political rights like the man in her country...
And the voice reached Lebanon; so the League of Women's Organizations delegated Mrs.
Emily Wadih Nasrallah — director of publicity in the League and president of the Child Nursery Association in Zahle — as its representative to the festival held by the Sudanese Women's Union in Khartoum.
Mrs. Nasrallah spoke to us of the festival, which was attended by upwards of ten thousand souls... The countries of the Far East were represented in it, and certain European states, as were the women's organizations of the Arab countries... Mrs. Nasrallah said that the festival lasted ten days, during which speeches were made and lectures delivered... The Sudanese woman stood on the platform demanding her right... and more than once the reactionary factions rose against her to choke her voice — one of the ministers even mounted the platform and addressed the women, saying: If there were among you a woman like our lady Aisha, we would allow you to plunge into the arena of politics... Whereupon one of the bold Sudanese women, called al-Hajja Kashif, a university graduate and one of the leaders of the women's movement, sprang up and answered him: "By your Lord, you men, tell me: is there among you anyone resembling Omar ibn al-Khattab?.. And yet we see you exercising the very right of which we have been deprived."
Her voice was seconded by the delegates of India, Finland, and the other countries taking part in the festival,
The women of Sudan at the festival