— Since when have you accompanied "The Woman's Voice," Master Tanious?

— Since the days of its childhood, in 1948 — that is, since it began to be printed at the presses of Dar al-Ahad, when it was two years old, issued by Dar al-Kitab, whose owner is Mr. Fuad Badr.

— Who was the first editor-in-chief you worked with? And what are your impressions of him?

— I worked first with Mr. Fouad Suleiman, in the years '48 and '49. And what I remember most of his writing is his love of the land and of the village, its paths and its nightingales. God rest his soul.

— And who came after Mr. Fouad Suleiman?

— After him the responsibility of the magazine was carried by Mr. Tawfiq Sayigh — poet of imagination and meditations, as though he were of some other world than ours; he brushed the "Voice" with a new color which, I won't hide it from you, was sometimes closed to me!

— So until that time the magazine was "The Woman's Voice" in name only?!

— That is the fact, unfortunately. But the late Mrs. Salma Sayegh carried its banner for a time, and behold, the magazine was a sweet song — a woman's song — but our departed friend's health did not permit her to carry on the work...

... And another page of history is turned — the magazine's history — and behold, it sits enthroned upon two capable hands, which secure for the magazine its balance of material, both as to its soundness and as to woman's true need of it... And around it a bouquet of young ladies... the fair and the dark, women of letters and beginners; and I do not know whether it is chance or... the fates that have gathered such comeliness beside letters, in Mrs. Shayboub's young companions??!

— And do you find any special difficulty in setting the type?

— I see you want to carry me back to my serious working atmosphere! Very well! First, I do not work alone at composing the type; there are other workmen who help me, and that keeps the work from monotony. And printing is marching along the course of progress, and our house is among the choicest houses in the elegance and quality of its printing, thanks to the renewal and the artistic care its owners lavish upon it.

— Then may I reassure the readers that The Woman's Voice is printed at the finest of printing houses?

— Can there be any doubt of it? And could it be other than what it is, so long as it is "The Woman's Voice"?!...