• Last month Dr. Fuad Sabra, physician of nervous diseases at the American University of Beirut, and his wife Mrs. Ellen were blessed with a brother for their firstborn Amin, whom they named "George." We wish the two little ones a long life robed in health in the shade of their generous parents.
• With the crescent of the new year, little "Kamal" looked out upon the world—the second son of Mr. Fuad Badr, owner of "Dar al-Kitab," from which the magazine "The Woman's Voice" is published. As we congratulate our friend Mr. Fuad Badr and his generous wife Mrs. Widad on the safe delivery and on good health, we pray that little "Kamal" may flourish and grow up alongside his brother "Habib," the two surrounded by their parents' care and tenderness.
• Amid a chorus of jubilation and ululations, the friend of "The Woman's Voice," Mrs. Riqqat Salam, wife of Mr. Abdullah Salam, gave birth to a boy, whom she named "Nawwaf." The delivery took place at the American University of Beirut hospital at the hands of the family physician, Dr. Edma Abouchdid, who showed surpassing skill in saving the lives of mother and child in a difficult delivery, twelve years after the birth of her firstborn, Hayat...
We congratulate our friend Riqqat and her husband Mr. Abdullah Salam on the safe delivery before all else, and then on her sweet "Nawwaf," wishing him an army of brothers and sisters!!
• And there is a fourth glad tiding, which set off a stir of joy and gladness in Lebanese circles: the tiding that Mrs. Eva Malik, wife of Dr. Charles Malik, Lebanon's ambassador plenipotentiary in Washington, has given birth to a firstborn son, after the passage of twelve years since their marriage... This happy news ran like lightning among the many friends, women and men, who had long wished to see this dream come true...
Word has reached us from Mrs. Hana Badr, who went specially to Washington to attend her daughter's delivery, that mother and child enjoy perfect health under
the supervision of the most skillful physicians. The newborn has been named "Habib" after the father of Dr. Charles Malik... and by a pleasant coincidence the mother's father likewise bears this name.
So "the Lebanese Women's League" offers its warmest congratulations to the dear friend Eva and to Dr. Charles Malik on their sweet little "Habib," praying God that he may draw behind him a number of brothers and sisters who will be—like their father—the pride of this homeland...
• The University Women's Union issued an invitation for Thursday evening, January 28, at half past six, to hear a lecture delivered by Dr. Doria Shafik, president of the "Bint al-Nil Union." The subject of the lecture was "Woman and the Arab Cause."
The University Women's Union welcomed the gracious Egyptian guest, who is leading the Egyptian woman along the road of emancipation and equality. The president, Dr. Zahia Kaddoura, gave a grand tea party in her honor, to which she invited the choicest elite of the men of state and the people of thought and pen; and she likewise introduced her to those of the Lebanese public who had had no opportunity to hear her precious lecture, through a session around the microphone broadcast from the Beirut station in the corner "The Woman's Weekly Talk," in which she set forth her position on the many problems that hamper the Arab woman's progress and bar her from reaching her sought-for goal.
Other contacts were made between Dr. Doria Shafik and the women's circles in Lebanon, whose echo will appear in the next issue..
The magazine "The Woman's Voice" regrets the lukewarm response with which Mrs. Zahia Salman's project for the creation of a permanent university chair in the name of "Salma Sayegh" has been met.
The committee approached Mr. Fuad Efram al-Bustani, president of the Lebanese University, and laid the project before him; it met with his full interest, and he promised at once to set aside a permanent chair in the department of Arabic literature to be called: the "Salma Sayegh Chair." It is to be obtained only by her who receives the necessary recommendation from the supervisory committee, after the candidate has passed an examination prepared for this purpose and given proof of linguistic and literary competence.
The Woman's Voice therefore offers its thanks to the president of the Lebanese University for his kindness and his encouragement, and it is pleased to establish this good relationship at the outset of the University's life, to grow as it grows; and perhaps, in consequence, there will rise up for us a company of women of letters marching forward, drawing their inspiration from the departed writer Salma Sayegh...
A good word must also be said for the positive zeal with which the project was met among certain individuals; we single out Mr. Hamid Baqi, who donated fifty Lebanese liras, and likewise Mrs. Evelyn Hitti Kanaan, who donated ten liras. To both go the committee's sincerest thanks.