at once and the other half left for the following year; and the Pasha kept the emir's mother as a hostage. Thus Sitt Nasab turned the harm of the Ottomans away from Lebanon, sacrificing herself as a ransom for her people and her country.

The Pasha kept that precious hostage even after Lebanon had paid what was owed. Yunus then showed his men their error in having trusted the Pasha's word and given him hostages. After the battle of Barouk the Lebanese returned to struggle and combat, while Sitt Nasab tasted with the uqqal the bitterness of captivity.

But God's justice broods over all things, and fortune's wheel turns upon the oppressor. The Sultan's favor turned against Fakhr al-Din's enemies, grand vizier and serdar alike: one of Fakhr al-Din's friends, Muhammad Jarkas Pasha, took the place of the tyrant Ahmad Pasha al-Hafiz and loosed the bonds of the captive. Sitt Nasab hastened to work for her son's return and summoned him, that her eye might be comforted by him before her death. She wrote to him, while he was in Naples, in 1618: "I was imprisoned in Damascus, and when its governor released me I returned to the homeland and did not find you. I have grown old in years; come to me, that I may see you before death."

With this appeal, filled with a mother's tenderness, Sitt Nasab called her son; and Fakhr al-Din made haste, saying to the Duke of Naples: "You know best how dear a mother is to her son. She has adjured me by her rearing of me, and I can no longer delay."

These are a few fragments from the life of Sitt Nasab, to whom Fakhr al-Din would turn in every grave matter, drawing inspiration from her counsel. She was, as the Italian Santi says in his report, "of greater standing with him in the days of peace, and more respected; the people set her in the rank of the prophets," and at his court she was known as the Great Lady. And truly Sitt Nasab was great — great in

her heart, great in the soundness of her mind and her wisdom, great in her composure and her daring in calamity. She is the noble Lebanese woman; she is

the mother — the mother of Fakhr al-Din, nay, the mother of Lebanon, which she built with her wise counsels and her leaping spirit.

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