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
Sumayyah al-Khazin
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Editor-in-chief: Edvick J. Shayboub
All correspondence concerning the editing and the administration is to be sent to:
Dar al-Kitab
Daouk Station, Phoenicia Street
the Saab Building
P.O.B. 1284 — Beirut
Telephone: 48-00
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Table of Contents
To My Sister, the Lebanese Woman .......... Edvick Jureidini Shayboub 3
What I Saw at Queen Elizabeth's Coronation .......... Alice Alfred Nakkash 5-6
The First Lebanese Woman to Enter the Electoral Battle .......... Emily Fares Ibrahim 8
Why I Decided Not to Enter the Electoral Battle .......... Laure Georges Tabet 9
My Predictions on the Results of the Coming Elections..! (reportage) .......... Majida Attar 10-11
Woman in the World .......... Asma Tubi 12-13
Guidance to the Lebanese Woman .......... Faiza Maalouf Antiba 14-16
How I Want Him (reportage) .......... Nur Salman 16-17
Your Pardon, Madam .......... Rashad Darghouth 18
Child Matters .......... 19-22
The Last Leaf (a story) .......... translated by Angele Abboud 23-25
Love on Vacation .......... Evelyn Hitti Kanaan 26-29
Obsession .......... Jihan Gazawi Aony 30-31
Take Care of Your Beauty .......... 32-33
A Call .......... Hibah al-Wadi 34
The Feast of Clear Skies (verse) .......... Nassim Nasr 35
An Hour with Nabiha Alour .......... Noura Halawani 36-37
With the People of Tourism and Summering (reportage) .......... 38-39
The Children's Artistic and Literary Contest .......... 40-41
The Maid of Ghassan .......... 42-43
In Society .......... 44-60
The Cover Picture
With this old Lebanese woman we adorn the cover of this issue. How much wisdom, firmness, and endurance there is in her faraway gaze. Does this old woman have something to offer the Lebanese woman at this new stage of her public life?!
— Photograph by the artist Manouk —
