Margaret Pope (journalist and anticolonial activist)

[2][3] After the Second World War, Pope lived in Cairo, where she produced English-language publicity for the Algerian, Tunisian, and Moroccan nationalists at the Office of the Arab Maghreb.

She travelled frequently between Cairo and Tangiers, and sometimes carried messages into Europe for North African nationalists.

[4] In 1953, she attended the Asian Socialist Conference in Burma, on behalf of Morocco's Istiqlal Party.

After Moroccan independence in 1956, she worked in Rabat as an English-language broadcaster for Radio Maroc, and continued to act as a networker and publicity agent on behalf of the Algerian FLN.

[5] She claimed to have inspired Gavin Maxwell to write Lords of the Atlas : the rise and fall of the House of Glaoua, 1893-1956.