Seated, from right to left: Mrs. Muneera Shehadeh, treasurer of the General Arab Women's Union; Mrs. Jamila Attia, secretary-general of the Egyptian Women's Union; Miss Ibtihaj Kaddoura, president of the General Arab Women's Union; Mrs. Adila al-Jazairi, president of the Syrian Women's Union; Miss Zulaykha al-Shihabi, president of the Jordanian Women's Union.
Standing, from right to left: Mrs. Nazik Sarkis, secretary of the General Arab Union; Mrs. Anbara al-Istarabadi, secretary of the Iraqi Union; Mrs. Anissa Najjar, representing the secretary of the League of Lebanese Women's Organizations; Mrs. Jihan al-Mousli, secretary of the Syrian Union; Mrs. Ellen Rihan, vice-president of the General Arab Union; Mrs. Ismat al-Sayyid, deputy for the president of the Iraqi Union; Mrs. Shafiqa Diab, deputy for the president of the League of Lebanese Women's Organizations; Mrs. Bahija Rashid, deputy for the president of the Egyptian Union; Mrs. Wadia Khartabil, president of the Palestinian Union in Beirut; Mrs. Zahra Salah, deputy for the secretary of the Jordanian Women's Union.
The Annual Meeting of the General Arab Women's Union
The General Arab Women's Union — with its full membership — held its annual meeting in Cairo, at the house of the Egyptian Women's Union, from the 21st to the 23rd of this past March, 1956.
Mrs. Nahed Sirri, president of the Egyptian Women's Union, opened
the meeting with an eloquent address consoling Lebanon, in the name of the ladies, over the earthquake catastrophe that had struck it, and asked the members to stand for two minutes in mourning for the innocent victims in the sister country; she also gave the delegations the warmest of welcomes.
Then Miss Ibtihaj Kaddoura,
president of the General Arab Women's Union, spoke. She thanked them for their consolation of Lebanon, and saluted the spirit of the Union's founder, the fondly remembered Mrs. Huda Shaarawi, asking the members to stand for two minutes in tribute to her pure soul. She likewise saluted Egypt, government and people, thanking the Egyptian Women's Union for their splendid reception and their