Mrs. Ibtihaj Ghalib on the staircase of the Egyptian Embassy in Beirut
They ask about femininity... and go every possible way in defining it, while it is quicksilver in a woman's personality... and who has ever been able to grasp quicksilver?
Many say that woman's femininity today is in danger... because she has taken to storming the fields of life and settling herself in the seats of business... I almost believed them, and almost retreated to the howdah, content
with whatever air and light seeped into it — until I learned that howdahs were the refuge of the helpless...
I almost believed everything that has been said and is being said about us, and about the future we are preparing for ourselves, which many have seen as dark and lowering — until I saw and heard, and love of life and longing for it came back to
A friendly gathering in the salon of the Egyptian Embassy.
To Mrs. Ghalib's right, Alia al-Khayri, wife of the Jordanian Minister of Economy — and to her left, Mrs. Samia Dimashqiya Abu al-Jibin.
