Salma Sayegh: Her Life in Brief

* She was born in Musaytbeh — Beirut — in 1889, and died at the Saint Charles Hospital in Beirut at noon on September 27, 1953.

* She received her education at the "Zahrat al-Ihsan" institute and studied Arabic under Sheikh Ibrahim al-Mundhir.

* She melted her heart away as a "teacher" in a number of Beirut institutes, among them: the Islamic Makassed, Beirut College for Women, the Laïque, and the Azariyeh.

* She married in 1912. Her only child is Mrs. "Aida," wife of Mr. Salah Labaki.

* In 1923, Mr. Georges Baz gathered for her the first fruits of her literary work, "al-Nasamat."

* She divided her activity among the women's associations, the most important of them: Al-Nahda An-Nisaiyah (of which she was the founder), the Lebanese Women's Union, and the Anti-Tuberculosis Society.

* She emigrated to Brazil, 1939–1947. She joined the "Andalusian League," and translated from Portuguese into Arabic varieties of contemporary Lebanese literature.

* In Brazil, in 1945, her "Pictures and Memories" appeared.

* For UNESCO in Beirut, in 1949, she brought out the book "Some Aspects of Goodness in Lebanon."

* She nourished the magazine The Woman's Voice and the Beirut press with the masterpieces of her writing, and left behind translations and manuscripts.

* After her death, the Lebanese government restored to her the gilded Order of Merit, which she had returned under the previous regime in protest against certain measures.

* Radio Lebanon, in its weekly "Woman's Talk" corner on Friday, November 13, commemorated the fortieth day of Salma Sayegh's passing, under the supervision of the women's program supervisor, Edvick Jureidini Shayboub; likewise, on Sunday, November 15, a second commemorative ceremony was held in the grand hall of the National Library, organized jointly by "the League of Women's Organizations in Lebanon" and "the Ahl al-Qalam Society."