This is a new page which "The Woman's Voice" adds to its pages. By it, it means to present to the ladies of this country an idea of women's activity in the world, in all its social, intellectual, and educational colors.

Dr. "Doria Shafik," editor-in-chief of "Bint al-Nil," is showing marked activity in the social and liter-ary field, and the news from Egypt has it that Mrs. Doria Shafik has

founded a new women's party.

Mrs. Shafik has defined the aims of the new Egyptian woman as follows:

1 — Care for mother and child.

2 — Restriction of divorce, making it conditional on specific circumstances approved by spe-cial committees.

3 — Restriction of polygamy to specific circumstances approved by special committees.

4 — Compulsory education for girls, and the opening of the door to them in all colors of technical education.

5 — Woman's political right, attached to no condition.

Mrs. Doria Shafik is about forty years old; she took a licence in lit-erature from the Sorbonne. Ahmad Amin, dean of the Faculty of Arts, refused to admit her to a teaching post because she is beautiful.

The Egyptian woman has begun to go down into the field of journalism

with vigor and activity. On the great Egyptian papers there are a number

of graduates of the university and the colleges; some supervise the editing and the pictures, and others work in the secretariat.

Mrs. "Marcienne al-Louzi" has joined the editorial staff of the magazine "Akher Sa'a"; she is a French lady married to an Egyptian, a graduate of the Faculty of Law, and the daughter of one of France's great poets, "Ferdinand Herold."

On the magazine "Akher Sa'a" there is also another editor, Miss Khayriyya Khayri, daughter of a former minister. She is a graduate

of a school of journalism, and used to work as editorial secretary of the magazine "al-Mukhtar" with Mr. Fouad Sarruf.

From the general secretary of the Fuad I Society of the Egyptian Red Crescent ("Ladies' Branch"), Miss Nadir Sabbour, we have received a letter explaining to us the great works this society has per-formed during the past few years in the social field. Among them: combating the malaria epidemic in

Upper Egypt, which spread in 1944, and the epidemic of relapsing fever in 1945. The Egyptian government appreciated this merit and bestowed decorations and medals upon many of the ladies of the Red Crescent.

In the middle of 1945, when the committee was informed of the French aggression against the Syrian and Lebanese peoples, a mission of ladies traveled to Syria and Lebanon supplied with clothing and medical equipment. The society was also very active in combating the cholera epidemic, just as it showed great activity in aiding the Egyptian army in Palestine. Miss Nadir Sabbour, besides her work in the Egyptian Red Crescent, works in certain other societies, such as the New Woman Society, which under-takes the education of poor girls. Miss Sabbour enclosed with her letter a photograph of the ladies of the Red Crescent, and a social article of much literary boldness, written especially for this special issue of "The Woman's Voice," which read-ers will find elsewhere in this issue.

The magazine "The Mother and the Child," published by the Child Protection Society in Iraq, continues its national mission of guiding Iraqi women's society in a sound direction of deep reach, and it perseveres in the performance of this mission with much awareness and knowledge.

The subjects which "The Mother and the Child" treats, by various men and women writers, touch genuinely upon the life of childhood and motherhood. Its latest issue was full of excellent subjects — scientific articles, artistic articles, health articles, and stories — and there is no doubt that the committee supervising this