The Woman's Voice

A monthly women's magazine published by the Lebanese Women's League

P.O. Box 1284 — Beirut — Lebanon

Responsible director: Heneni Tarcha

Administration Committee

Afifi Majdalani, Nazik Sarkis

Salwa Mahmasani, Laure Tabet

Nahia Ghulmiyya

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Dar al-Kitab

Daouk Station, Phoenicia Street,

Saab Building

P.O. Box 1284 — Beirut

Telephone: 48-00

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Page
A Call to the Lebanese Woman ... Salma Sayegh ... 5
The Cover Picture ... 4
How Woman Was Emancipated ... Widad Cortas ... 5–9
The Three Pillars ... Zaheya Ayoub ... 10 and 11
“Sitt Nasab,” Mother of Fakhr al-Din ... Maurice Chehab ... 12 and 13
The Unconquerable Spirit of Woman ... Widad Matar ... 14 and 15
An Agricultural Calendar ... Léon Latour ... 16 and 17
How Myths Arose ... Tawfiq Sayigh ... 18–20
With the Girl Guides ... Hanifa Sabra ... 21–23
A Letter I Wish I Had Burned ... 24–27
Burst Forth, My Soul ... Fahima Hakim ... 28
The Resurrection ... “Ibn al-Layl” and Wadia al-Najm ... 29
Khazen Jokes ... 30
A Visit to the Quarantine Station ... M. R. R. ... 31–33
To Heads of Families ... 34
The Ijaza in Poetry ... Henriette Siksek ... 35–37
Woman in Dakar ... Samia Qaramli ... 38
Letters ... the Women's Union ... 40 and 41
Nazira Joumblatt (in French) ... Eveline Bustros ... 42 and 43
In Society ... 44–46
The Kitchen ... 47–49

A picture of Khasikiyya, daughter of Muhammad Zafir, governor of Sidon, and sister of Sidi Ali, one of the grandees of Fakhr al-Din's state. Fakhr al-Din left his women in the fortress of Niha and took Khasikiyya with him to the Italian lands, for she was the most beloved of his women to him "for her beauty, her youth, and the standing of her family." The drawing shows her in her Lebanese dress: on her head a cap of gold to which a kerchief is fastened, hanging down her back; she wears trousers and a soft, long-sleeved shirt, her figure cinched by a tight embroidered bodice; she is clad in a qumbaz and shod in boots of soft leather. This picture was taken from a drawing dating to the eighteenth century.

(From the collection of the Directorate of Antiquities)

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