The main character, Muna, is an educated woman who teaches and writes for a newspaper and further criticizes her husband for his lack of interest in national politics.

[4] Written in the first half of the 1950s, but published only in 1969, after the death of its author, the story "depicted for the first time the life of a working woman in Sudanese society."

[1] Sudanese novelist Buthaina Khidr Makki (born 1948), the author of two novels called Ughniyyat al-nār (The Fire Song) 1998) and Ṣahīl al-nahr (The Whinnying of the River) (2000), said about Malkat al-Dar Mohamed: “She was extremely courageous at a time when people were asking women not to be loud and endure oppression.

"[7] In his article about Sudanese women's writing, Egyptian writer Mamdouh Farraj al-Nabbi stressed the importance of The Wide Void and called for a new appraisal of this novel.

Quoting Sudanese poet and writer Al-Nour Othman Abkar, he describes Malkat ad-Dar's intention "to fulfill the spiritual quest of her heroines where the grip of patriarchy loosens.