The Woman's Voice

A Lebanese monthly magazine published by

the Lebanese Women's League

P.O. Box 1284 — Beirut — Lebanon

Responsible Director:

Hanineh Tousha

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Editor-in-Chief:

Edvick Jureidini Shayboub

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Publishers

Dar al-Kitab

Hamra Street, the Ghabrash Building

(opposite the Capuchin church)

P.O. Box 1284 — Beirut

Telephone: 25102

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Subscriptions

In Lebanon, Syria, and the Arab world

15 Lebanese lira or the equivalent

Abroad

10 dollars or the equivalent

For official departments and institutions

25 Lebanese lira or the equivalent

Advertisements: to be arranged

directly with the management

Issue Ten — Twelfth Year — October 1956

Table of Contents
Page
Jihan Gazawi Aony ......... the Editor-in-Chief 2
Letters from Jihan ......... Samira Azzam 3–5
A Short Story in Breaths ......... Jihan Gazawi Aony 6–7
A Page from the Life of Gibran and Howayek ......... Edvick J. Shayboub 8–9
From My Notebook ......... Rose Ghorayeb 10
I Was in Moscow ......... Nur Salman 11–13
The Damascus International Fair ......... (The Editors) 14–16
We and the Automobile ......... Eva Badr Malik 17–18
Memoirs of a Heart (A Story) ......... Malihah Zaydan 19–21
The World's Most Famous Operas ......... translated by Samir Shikhani 22–25
Medicine in the Hands of Artists ......... 26–27
A Picture Every Month ......... Emily Nasrallah 28
How Does Ernest Hemingway Live? ......... 29
The World of the Cinema ......... 30–31
The Memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor ......... 32–34
Return to the Baalbek Festival ......... The Editors 35–37
Selections from Western Women's Poetry ......... Hibah al-Wadi 38–39
From Our Heritage ......... Abdullah Hashimeh 41–42
Society News ......... 44–47
The Kitchen ......... 48
World Events in a Month ......... Ziyadeh Awwad 50–51
October 1956