The Cover Picture — Alia Riad al-Solh

The Cover Picture

— Alia Riad al-Solh —

• She is the eldest daughter of His Excellency the Prime Minister Riad Bey al-Solh, head of the Lebanese Government.

• She is 17 years old.

• She received her education at the Laïque institute.

• She commands French well, along with Arabic, and has begun the study of English.

• She has a taste for the old Arabic poetry, above all al-Mutanabbi.

• In French literature she reads the Romantic literature, above all Hugo and Chateaubriand.

And in modern literature, Georges Duhamel.

• Among the political personalities she used to admire was that of the late Saadallah al-Jabiri, the great Syrian leader.

• Her counsel to the rising generation of the girls of her sex is that they devote themselves to learning and culture, for learning alone frees man from his bondage.

• She wishes "The Woman's Voice" success, because it is the only magazine in Lebanon that expresses woman's renaissance.