A Story Symposium

The "Arab Youth Association" at the American University of Beirut issued invitations to a story symposium in which took part a group of those who have contributed by their production to the building of the modern Arabic story: Sheikh Said Takieddine, Miss Samira Azzam, and Mr. Farid Mudawwar. The symposium was chaired by Dr. Muhammad Yusuf Najm, who, after introducing the participants to the audience, put to them questions about the motives for story-writing within their souls, and then about their view of the principle of commitment in literature. The talk then passed to the theater and to the causes that have kept it from taking its part in the battle of progress in our country.

The symposium was successful and full of interest, thanks to the liveliness the participants lent it, which lifted it out of the frozen atmosphere that prevails over many a lecture.