Table of Contents

Table of Contents

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The First of the Year ..................... Asma Tubi ..................... 3
The Anniversary of the Prophet's Birth ..................... Salwa M. Moumina ..................... 5
Thoughts on Art ..................... Rose Ghorayeb ..................... 6
The Woman's Voice Symposium (Asma Muwaqqa', Fahima al-Hakim, Munah Khoury, Hamid Jabburi) ..................... 7–9
Pictures That Will Never Return ..................... Salma Sayegh ..................... 10–11
A Tear for My Friend Fouad Suleiman ..................... Edvick J. Shayboub ..................... 12–13
The Pillars of Life ..................... Tamam Dawud ..................... 14
My Dear Friend the Poet ..................... Julia Tu'mah Dimashqiyah ..................... 15
The Road to Salvation (a story) ..................... Rashad Darghouth ..................... 17
Between Mother and Daughter ..................... Faiza Maalouf Antiba ..................... 18–19
Our Children in Adolescence ..................... Edvick J. Shayboub ..................... 20–21
The Child's Clothes ..................... 22
The Elephants' Longing (a story for children) ..................... 23–24
The Holiday Gift (a story) ..................... Sophie Arqash Metni ..................... 25–27
A Dying Man (verse) ..................... Badi' Murhij ..................... 28
What Shall We Play at Our Family Parties ..................... 30–31
The Dahr al-Baydar Road and the Marjayoun Road ..................... Said Takieddine ..................... 34–35
I Am the Husband of a Superior Woman ..................... 36–37
Be Beautiful ..................... 38–39
The Page of the Lebanese Women's Union (the Publicity and Publications Committee, Hamida Sheikh) ..................... 40
The Patient's Complaints Against the Doctor ..................... Dr. Zakan Shakhashiri ..................... 41–43
The Beauty of the Home (illustrated) ..................... 44–46
Why This Shyness? ..................... 47
The Kitchen ..................... 48–50

The Cover Picture

...The trunk of an age-old cedar tree, standing fast against time, however the storms and tempests league against it..
How greatly we need, at the opening of this new year, to make our resolve and our will as
firm and steadfast as this trunk!!