Nazli Zainab Hanim (Arabic: نازلی زینب هانم; 1853 – 28 December 1913) was an Egyptian princess from the dynasty of Muhammad Ali Pasha and one of the first women to revive the tradition of the literary salon in the Arab world, at her palace in Cairo from the 1880s until her death.

Khalil became the Porte's ambassador to France, so she left Cairo once more and shared with her husband his voyages and displacements to several European capitals.

[8] Before embarking on this, her first trip to Tunis, Nazli contacted a Tunisian reformer living in Cairo, Mohamed Bayram V, who recommended that she look up some important families such as the Baccouche and the Sellami as well as the Prince Nasir Bey.

[12] The French authorities thought that she invented a family business as an excuse to travel and believed that the princess was a spy in Egypt for the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II.

[12] During her stays, she went on family and official visits, including one to the French General Resident in his palace in La Marsa.

Since becoming a widow in 1879, Nazli had refused several marriage proposals, one coming from a governmental minister, the other from a prince.

[6] In her palace, she hosted soirees, and was friendly with the intellectual elites of her day, including the Egyptians, Muhammad Abduh, Saad Zaghloul, and Qasim Amin, and the British, Lord Cromer and Herbert Kitchener.

It was there that famous Egyptian personalities, such as the reformer Mohamed Abduh, met the Tunisian elite.