A monthly women's magazine published by the Lebanese Women's League

Responsible director: Heneni Tarcha

Managed and published by: Dar al-Kitab — Beirut, Lebanon — Daouk quarter

P.O. Box 1284 — Telephone 67-65

Subscription: at home: 15 Lebanese lira • abroad: two Egyptian pounds

Ever since the Lebanese Women's League first thought of publishing "The Woman's Voice," in circumstances in which it was not easy for magazines to come into being, we have tried, whenever some corner of the publishing crisis that the war had drawn tight was eased, to appear before our honored readers with an alteration or a renewal, touching sometimes the appearance, and more often the substance — certain as we are that this new voice in the world of our press must become a magazine embodying all that the "voice" of woman ought to be: sweetness, elegance, and taste; depth and richness; perception, guidance, and inspiration; goodness, nobility, and beauty.

For it appeared in a day when deprivation stretched from paper to freedom itself! A day when men's minds were occupied with nothing beyond bombs, submarines, fortresses, and aircraft... So it was like a grain of wheat cast into the sand, whose sower must provide it with soil, moisture, and fertility — and with the hungry as well...

Then came the end of the war, and it passed from a bulletin appearing weekly in four pages, carrying an article, a report, and a picture, to a magazine appearing monthly in forty-eight pages, with room for all the studies and literary production that the anxious minds of those days could offer, and for all the ornament and arrangement that hurried printing could allow.

And when souls had grown calm, or nearly so, and had cast off the garment of war which they still wore by force of habit, and the need in this field for such nourishment became pressing, a new organization was required, and a new sacrifice, so that the magazine might take an elegant step forward. Its management and publication were therefore entrusted, without any change in its spirit or its substance, to "Dar al-Kitab," a young publishing house that carries on its work upon a deep scientific foundation, tended by young men who join to culture and devotion the energy of the men of great enterprises. No wonder, then, that we augured well for "The Woman's Voice" under this new dispensation.

Having accompanied "The Woman's Voice" through all its stages, and accompanying it still in its new era, I cannot but pay tribute to the efforts our noble ladies are making along this path for the sake of pure public service. I mention in particular the magazine's committee and the president of the Lebanese Women's League, who has never ceased striving and sacrificing, smoothing away difficulty after difficulty, until the magazine has reached this point.

And it is a cause of gladness that we are able from time to time to surprise our readers with a renewal they will love or an improvement they desire; in this lies our hope of arriving one day at the satisfaction of the loftiest of their tastes — which is the utmost of what we aspire to.