A monthly women's magazine published by the Lebanese Women's League
P.O. Box 1284 — Beirut — Lebanon
Responsible director: Heneni Tarcha
Administrative committee:
Afifi Majdalani, Nazik Sarkis
Salwa Mahmasani, Laure Tabet
Nahiya Ghalmiyah
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All correspondence concerning the editing and the administration
to be sent to:
Dar al-Kitab
Daouk Station, Phoenicia Street,
Saab Building
P.O. Box 1284 — Beirut
Telephone: 48-00
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Subscription:
In Lebanon, Syria, and the Arab world
15 Lebanese lira or the equivalent
Abroad
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For official departments and institutions
25 L.L. or the equivalent.
Table of Contents
Page
On the Margins of Women's Week . . . Salma Sayegh . . . 3
The Cover Picture . . . 4
To the Village Poet . . . Asma Tubi . . . 5
The Home Library . . . Zaheya Ayoub . . . 6 and 7
The Sweetest Confidences (poem) . . . Mary Ajami . . . 8
Consolation . . . Tawfiq Sayigh . . . 9
On the Road to Equality . . . 10, 11, 12, and 13
Life Has Taught Me . . . Salma Sayegh . . . 14 and 15
Meet the Mothers of the Future . . . M. Dunya . . . 16, 17, and 18
Man Marries Two Women . . . 19, 20, and 21
The Most Sacred of Tasks . . . Huda Tawfiq Tali . . . 22 and 23
The Secret of the Locked Mill (story) . . . Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad . . . 24, 25, and 26
I Shall Slay Despair (poem) . . . Sabiha Munir al-Mudarris . . . 27
Between the Sea and the Mountain . . . Juhayna Tarabulsi . . . 28
The Wisdom of Life . . . Kawkab al-Misri . . . 29
Partners in Work . . . a children's story . . . 30 and 31
Children and Their Homework . . . 32 and 33
Let Us Free Ourselves from Fear . . . Salim Nassar . . . 34
Rotary's Ambassadress to Lebanon . . . Barbara Jean Denning . . . 35
The Lebanese Women's Union . . . 36 and 37
And Sometimes the Ear Loves Before the Eye (story) . . . Salma al-Haffar al-Kuzbari . . . 38, 39, 40, and 41
In Society . . . 43, 44, and 45
Kitchen Matters . . . 46 and 47
The Cinema (in Pictures) . . . 48, 49, and 59
The Cover Picture
What, one wonders, is she thinking of?
Is she repeating:
"The roof of my house is iron, the corner of my house is stone —
so pour down, O sleet, and stream down, O rain!"
Or is she completing it:
As long as there is on earth a child shivering with cold,
warmth will never reach my heart!
Or is she perhaps at play, thinking neither of this nor of that?!
