forth Miss Nazik al-Mala'ika's merits and the aspects of her excellence in thought and in poetry.
She began the lecture by defining Arab society. Then she analyzed the causes of its unrest in a philosophical and psychological analysis, and she charged our society with destructiveness and fragmentation, and with being no longer fit to protect the community, because of its inclination toward conservatism and rigidity, and its bondage to worn-out traditions that paralyze the mind and hold it back from creation, renewal, and flexibility — which are among the requirements of survival and of life in society.
Then she pointed out that this fragmentation has isolated woman in her own private world and denied her her intellectual capacities, claiming that she needs emotion and nothing more. This fragmentary view has driven woman away from the concerns of public life and made her lose — with time — her intellectual confidence in herself, since for long ages she was given over to simple manual tasks; and it has left her, in consequence, prey to a negative inner struggle, to hesitation, and to doubt. Hence dissolution has grown rampant in society, and the disease of fragmentation has penetrated to the very core of our life, producing women without ideas and men without feelings — for in young societies, which are marked by vitality and growth, woman shares with man in the various walks of life, and neither of them is confined to one sphere to the exclusion of the other...
As for Miss Nazik al-Mala'ika's solution for this abnormal state of affairs, it lies by way of undivided unity, and by demanding an upright social order in which creative human energy may breathe forth a better society to which it looks forward.
The Iraqi poetess's lecture stirred a tremendous echo of appreciation and admiration, and institutions and literary circles hastened to invite her; she gave a poetry evening at the invitation of the Cénacle Libanais, and public and private banquets were held in her honor to pay her tribute and to become acquainted with her singular personality.
The conclusion of these festivities was the one to which the Young Muslim Women's Club gave the invitation. There, in a homelike literary atmosphere and amid storms of applause, Miss al-Mala'ika recited a bouquet of her latest poems; then Dr. Salim Haidar rose to thank the poetess and himself recited two poems from the choicest of his verse; and the company departed, thanking Mrs. Habiba Shaaban Yakan and the members of the Young Muslim Women for their zeal in calling this delightful gathering...
And Miss Nazik al-Mala'ika said shortly before leaving Lebanon: I return to Iraq with my soul laden with sweet memories of the warmth, love, and enthusiasm I met with among my Lebanese brethren...
• Lebanon celebrated Child Day for the second time on April 18, under the auspices of the Lebanese Child-Welfare Society. Pairs of young men and young women, friends of the society, went about the streets with badges on their breasts, collecting donations for the society, which within the space of six years has managed to open three homes for children and which is now working to open a fourth... and this thanks to the energy of its president, Mrs. Malaki Haik, and its devoted and active members...
Child Day was preceded by a week
of broadcasts from Radio Lebanon, opened by the president of the Lebanese Red Cross, the Marquise de Freige, with a gracious address delivered on her behalf by Mrs. Marie Siryani. His Excellency the Minister of Education also spoke on the society's efforts, expressing his admiration and appreciation of its activity... There spoke likewise Dr. Jamal Karam Harfush, Mr. Raji al-Ra'i, Mrs. Ellen Rihan, and Mr. Husni Jalloul on behalf of the Ministry of Health; and finally Mrs. Alice Bardaweel, who delivered an address on behalf of the Child-Welfare Society, thanking in it all who have contributed and are contributing to 'Child Day,' in the service of this great humanitarian project...
On Tuesday, April 27, the social affairs committee of the Young Women's Christian Association invited a select company of Lebanese men and women to a luncheon at the administration center, after which Dr. Robertson, head of the hospital for nervous diseases, spoke on the subject: "Views on Mental Health."
The hall was packed with guests — distinguished people who appreciate the association's great humanitarian effort in the cause of enlightening public opinion and spreading knowledge and love within it...
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