A monthly women's magazine published by the Lebanese Women's League
P.O. Box 1284 — Beirut — Lebanon
Responsible Director: Heneni Tarcha
The Supervisory Committee — Mesdames:
Alice Nakkash Nazik Sarkis
Sumayya al-Khazen
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Editor-in-Chief: Edvick J. Shayboub
All correspondence concerning editorial matters and administration should be addressed to:
Dar al-Kitab
Daouk Station, Phoenicia Street,
Saab Building
P.O. Box 1284 — Beirut
Telephone: 48-00
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Table of Contents
Page
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!!
