What Do You Read?

Miss Nada Baroudi

She graduated this year from the American University of Beirut with first-class distinction — at the age of 19!
She reads English literature most of all, and especially the classics.. She prefers modern literature to the old, and the best of world literature...
The writers she loves most are Stefan Zweig, Emil Ludwig, Gibran, André Gide, and André Maurois.
She reads Arabic literature a little. Those she loves most are Taha Hussein, Tawfiq al-Hakim, and Gibran Khalil Gibran... She does not read magazines...
She is fond of reading the modern novel.

Miss Amal Wahid Hifni

She too is one of this year's graduates of the American University of Beirut. She specialized in English literature and reads it on a wide scale..
She loves fiction more than poetry, for she is a realist... The writers she loves most are Dickens, the Brontë sisters, and Jane Austen. Among magazines she reads al-Musawwar, al-Ithnayn, Musamarat al-Jayb, and al-Hilal... And she prefers "The Woman's Voice," because it carries out the mission of the Arab woman, and for the variety and color of its subjects.

Miss Mary Adel al-Solh

In the third scientific class at the American College for Girls. Fond of reading. She reads English literature in the first place, and Arabic literature in the second.
She loves English novels and Arabic literary essays. The Arab writers she loves most are Taha Hussein, Mikhail Naimy, Omar Fakhoury, and Gibran Khalil Gibran (whom she has read in English).
Among magazines she prefers "The Woman's Voice," which has among the students of the Junior College a great number of admirers and readers...

Miss Abida Nassif

A graduate of the Junior College with distinction, and an employee of the Socony company.. Fonder of reading in Arabic than in English..
The writers she loves most are Mikhail Naimy, Gibran, and Rihani. She inclines toward everything written on the Arab and Palestine question. She admires two books: "The Meaning of the Disaster" by Dr. Constantine Zurayk, and "The Lesson of Palestine" by Musa al-Alami.
In English reading she loves classic literature, and the authors she loves most are Dickens, Shelley, and the Brontë sisters. She reads the Arabic magazines a great deal, especially al-Adab, al-Hilal, "The Woman's Voice," al-Musawwar, and al-Ithnayn.
Among newspapers she reads "Akhbar al-Yawm" and "al-Hayat."

Miss Afaf Mustafa al-Zaybaq

A graduate of the American University of Beirut this year, specialized in English literature, which she reads on a wide scale. The French writer she loves most is André Gide...
.. She reads Arabic books in the third place. The writer she loves most is Taha Hussein, in his English and French translations. She loves the book "al-Abarat" by al-Manfaluti. Of Arabic poetry she loves nothing but the tender poetry of the Mahjar, especially the poetry of Ilya Abu Madi. Among magazines she reads "Bint al-Nil" for amusement and "The Woman's Voice" for cultivation... and at times she reads al-Ithnayn.