A monthly women's magazine devoted to the Lebanese Women's League
P.O. Box 1284 — Beirut — Lebanon
Responsible director: Heneni Tarcha
The supervisory committee — Mesdames:
Alice Nakkash Nazik Sarkis
Sumayya al-Makhazin
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Editor-in-chief: Edvick J. Shayboub
All correspondence concerning editorial matters and management
should be sent to:
Dar al-Kitab
Daouk Station, Phoenicia Street
The Saab Building
P.O. Box 1284 — Beirut
Telephone: 25102
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Subscriptions
In Lebanon, Syria, and the Arab world
15 Lebanese liras or the equivalent
Abroad
10 dollars or the equivalent
For official departments and institutions
25 Lebanese liras or the equivalent
Advertisements: to be arranged directly
with the management
A General Accounting . . . Edvick Jureidini Shayboub . . . 3
A Memory Renewed . . . Salwa Mahmasani Moumina . . . 5
Personality of the Month: With Mrs. Shafiqa Abd al-Rahim Diab . . . Majida Attar . . . 6–7
At the “Woman's Voice” Forum: Four University Women with Couturiers Back from Paris . . . Evelyn Kanaan . . . 8–9
On “Struggle”: Abla al-Khoury Writes to Aphrodite . . . 10
With the Members of the Mabarra Charity and Education Society in Damascus . . . 11–13
Our Little Girl Is Blind . . . translated by Amira Jammal . . . 14
Flights of Fancy . . . Sin wa-Ayn . . . 15
The Hum of a Quill . . . Yaacoub Hourani . . . 16
In Memory of October 14 (verse) . . . Riyad al-Azhari . . . 16
Mafluq's Chit-Chat . . . Mafluq . . . 17
Struggle (a story) . . . Noura Nowayhed Halawani . . . 18–21
What I Saw in Italy . . . Anissa Najjar . . . 22–23
They Call Me a Selfish Mother! . . . 24–25
Cut Down on the Chores You Loathe—If You Want a Happier Life! . . . 26–27
Why Don't You Want Children?! . . . 28–29
The World Between Normal... and Abnormal . . . 30–31
Recently Published Books . . . Yaacoub Hourani . . . 32–33
Love and Tenderness Are Among the Child's First Needs . . . Mayy Tawfiq Salman . . . 35
The Tape Recorder: One of the Luxuries of This Age . . . 36
The American Woman and Political Awareness . . . 37–38
In Society . . . 44–48
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The Cover Picture
A dress for before noon in gray tweed, made in two pieces, and set off by this bolero lined with black astrakhan — a creation of Pierre Balmain.
