asking leave, because they issue from a heart filled with faith.

"I speak now with burning anguish, as though I were the voice of woman, silent for generations; and you listen to me with compassion, as though you were the soul of man, scattered since the beginning of the ages — the great dispersed soul gathering its strength to listen; and the trembling voice, which had known only the whisper of obedience and the murmur of obscure rebellion, rises now, coming from afar, from the depths of the black ages, crying: O man, you abased me, and so you yourself were abject; free me, that you may be free; free me, that you may free humanity."

And how proud she was when she was invited to ceremonies in her honor and given occasion to speak — not because she loved grandeur and display, but because honoring her meant esteem for the dignity of the Arab woman in general, and encouragement to her to rise and march forward. Thus her words at the "Green Hut" gathering, the ceremony held in celebration of her:

"Did I know that this celebration

was for me alone, in myself, shame would hold the word of thanks upon my lips; but I know that the aim of this tribute is too far-reaching to be confined to one girl, and too great to be directed to an individual. Its aim is the encouragement of the Eastern girl in general, to whom you say, in my person, that there is in the East a new spirit demanding its renaissance, and that your eyes watch over it and your hearts tend it, to supply it with what strength and encouragement may be. Therefore I find myself at this hour filled with a dignity and a con-sequence I have never felt before."

And in her address "Tears," delivered in 1919 at the meeting held in Egypt to found the "Refuge of Freedom," she records her admiration for the men of Egypt who opened to her the field of speech — as if by that they were raising woman's station.

"Now that man has grown great and risen high, he has set me in my place, letting my voice mount freely and prevail, compelling and effec-tive — not because it is the voice of a girl, but because it is the voice of the completing human individual."

And what can the pen write of this singular personality and this blazing genius?

And who is more fit than "The Woman's Voice" to commemorate her who raised her voice — that voice whose echo still rings in our ears.

The special Mayy issue is nothing other than a tribute to the dignity of the Arab woman in the person of Mayy. The daughters of the Arabs, for all the variety of their creeds and the difference of their homelands, will remember with great admiration the works of her who raised their standing.

Our children, our very hearts...

Walid Atef Khedr, six months old, defies the camera