At the beginning of the past month, the Iraqi lawyer Miss Sabiha al-Sheikh Daoud, inspector in the government schools for girls, visited Lebanon on her way from Turkey to spend the spring vacation. She seized the opportunity of her presence in Beirut to make contact with Lebanese women's circles and to become acquainted with the various women's organizations and the extent of their activity in the social and charitable fields. She was greatly impressed by the wide social and humanitarian fields upon which the feet of the Lebanese woman have trodden, and declared on this occasion: "The works of the Lebanese woman lack the publicity sufficient to display them as they

should be — and that may be nothing but modesty on her part!"

Miss Sabiha al-Sheikh Daoud is secretary of the Iraqi Red Crescent. Miss Ibtihaj Kaddoura gave a luncheon in honor of the distinguished guest at her home, during which the ladies invited discussed how the various Arab women might cooperate to achieve their common aims.

The Young Muslim Women's Association Tea Party

• Early in March, the Young Muslim Women's Association gave a grand tea party at its house in honor of the Minister Plenipotentiary of Pakistan and his wife, attended by a great number of official and civic personalities and friends of the association.

The party was opened by the association's president, Mrs. Habiba Shaaban Yakan, who welcomed the guests most warmly and spoke of the association's works and aims. Then His Excellency the Minister of Pakistan delivered an eloquent address, expressing his deep admiration for this great humanitarian work; he then affirmed the existence of a firm bond of understanding and friendship between Pakistan and all the Arab countries, and finally showed a readiness and a sincere desire to assist this project whenever he should be able to do so.

"Hirman" by Salma al-Haffar al-Kuzbari

• Arabic letters has greeted us with "Hirman," a collection of stories, original and translated, all of which tell of the fingertips of the woman who has united in her person motherhood and wifehood, diplomacy and literature...

We would not have turned aside to the person of the author to speak of her — for the production concerns us more than the producer — were it not that she is reflected, in her clarity and the harmony of her colors, in her womanliness and her qualities, in most of the stories!

Perhaps Mrs. Salma al-Haffar al-Kuzbari is inclined to roam the land of Egypt so as to record from there the happenings of her stories, for the story after which she named her book, "Hirman," is Egyptian with a Turkish flavoring — what, then, is the secret?!

The book was introduced by the poet Mr. Shafiq Jabri, who drew his preface from the spirit of the book. And after all, "Hirman" is a sweet breath of woman's story-writing that will meet a warm welcome in Arabic letters.

In a report from Damascus: the writer and mother Salma al-Haffar al-Kuzbari gave birth some three months ago to a baby girl whom she named "Rasha," and she is now absorbed in translating the book "Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman" by the famous writer Stefan Zweig; the book is expected to appear in the months to come.

So "The Woman's Voice" congratulates Dr. Nadir al-Kuzbari and his wife on the arrival of the little girl "Rasha," from whose name one may augur every beauty and charm!