This Issue

Dar al-Kitab publishes this special issue of The Woman's Voice on the occasion of the blessed feast of Christmas. It is, as readers can see, a considerable effort that has demanded much sacrifice. Yet every sacrifice is light in the cause of carrying out the mission we resolved upon the day we took upon ourselves the direction and publication of this magazine.

We promise our readers, women and men, that we shall keep moving forward. And nothing will be wanting to us in keeping on this course but the help of God and the support of our countrywomen and countrymen at home and abroad. Support in words — expressions of admiration and appreciation — is necessary, but it does not avail as much as support in deeds. And that can come only through personal effort to increase this magazine's readers and friends. There is no doubt that there are circles under this Arab sky which The Woman's Voice has not yet reached — and reach them it must.

Thus, Madam, an important responsibility rests upon you, if you believe in the mission for which this magazine was founded — the responsibility of working to spread this magazine wherever you are able. For you know full well the Arab woman's need for magazines like this one, whose function, before all else, is to be a free platform on which women's opinions meet, and to carry the news of her activity in every walk of life.

This special issue comprises the two issues of December 1946 and January 1947. And since the third year begins in January, this issue accordingly counts toward the collection of the second year and the third year together.

May we always meet with the favor we encounter everywhere, and may we also always be faithful to the mission we are intent on performing with unshakable faith and a devotion untouched by weakness.