With Life

A collection of stories from the pen of Mrs. Salwa Mahmasani Moumina, published by Dar al-Ilm

lil-Malayin. They are swift, colored pictures from the tragedies of our life... The author sums this up in her preface, saying: "Here, behind the curtains, and in the turnings of time, how much we have seen and heard — what colors and chapters of this life in which you and I, O man, are floundering."

"And in truth, it is our duty to record some of these colors, with the good in them and the evil, that they may remain in the hearing of time, and with life."

And Mrs. Salwa Mahmasani Moumina is, in her stories, a writer with a purpose: she is not content to paint the scene with an artistic eloquence worthy of al-Jahiz, but through the flow of her description she points you to the places of vice and deformity, or to the places of virtue and beauty.

"With Life" — a new witness against those who say that woman has turned away from writing the story! (See the story of the issue, p. 15)