[5] This was in regards to how in February 1951, Shafik managed to secretly bring together 1500 women from Egypt's two leading feminist groupings (Bint Al-Nil and the Egyptian Feminist Union), and organize a march of people that interrupted parliament for four hours after they gathered there with a series of demands mainly related to women's Socioeconomics rights.

[6] When the case went to trial, many Bint al-Nil supporters attended the courtroom, and the judge adjourned the hearing indefinitely.

[7] Also in the 1950s, she served as a defense lawyer in famous political trials regarding a group charged with conspiring against the state.

[4] She was the sole woman to be part of the work of the Committee for the Modification of Status Laws for Muslims that began in the 1960s.

[4] She was a mother to nine children, Adel, Ismail, Nabila, Azima, Nabil, Sherif, Farouk, Fouad and Samy Abdel Latif.