" He was clearly out of his depth in Egyptian politics and accepted uncritically the opinion that, as he put it in a telegram, Zaghlul represented the "opinion of majority of Egyptian intellectuals" ; as though "Egyptian intellectuals' were a known or intelligible entity, as though their opinions - whatever they were or however ascertained - had overriding or primordial importance, and as though it made the smallest sense in such a situation to speak - except in the loosest and most misleading manner - of representation or representativeness. "

― Elie Kedourie , The Chatham House Version: And Other Middle Eastern Studies