Mrs. Zuhura Adil, as she spoke to us about her school, spoke as though of a piece of herself, of something she had reared with all the care and love she possessed. And that was only natural, for Mrs. Adil has given much, kept long vigils, and worked without
pause, until she brought her school to the place it has reached.
"...That was seventeen years ago, in 1933, when Mrs. Adil first thought of opening a kindergarten in the city of Baghdad...
The kindergarten began in her house in the Saadoun quarter with eight children, and no sooner had the year ended than their number had reached forty!...
In the second year the demand was encouraging, which led her to rent a house set apart for the school, and the enrollment figures went on climbing steadily.
In 1937 the school numbered 120 children " 1941 — 350 children " 1944 — 750 children " 1949 — 1,200 children
The school now numbers more than one thousand two hundred pupils... and they
have buildings, most of them erected especially for this purpose... The school enjoys a fine reputation: the rate of success in the government examinations exceeds 97%, a rate no other school in Baghdad has attained."
Whoever has lived in Baghdad and followed the development of its social movements cannot but show his admiration and esteem for an institute of mixed instruc
A lovely bouquet of children in one of the dances
A general view of the garden of the Adil National School,
where the children play in freedom....