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And on Earth, Peace... — The Editor-in-Chief — 4

Supplications to Jesus on the Night of His Birth — Raji al-Ra'i — 5

The Feast of Rebirth — Asma Tubi — 6–7

Were Your Wishes Fulfilled This Past Year? (Reportage) — Majida Attar — 8–9

Christmas in Bethlehem, Yesterday and Today — translated by Umayma Riz — 10–12

A Page from the Life of Gibran and Howayek (8) — Edvick J. Shayboub — 13–15

Sheikh Mounir Takieddine Says... — 16–17

Inspired by the Family — Almas al-Duwayk — 17

Fashions — 18–20

The Nun of the Workshop — A Story — Abdallah Ghanem — 21–23

A Little Story in Outpourings (8) — Jihan Gazawi Aony — 24–25

Johann Sebastian Bach — Fadil Abu al-Nasr — 26–27

The World of the Cinema — My Mother, Vivien Leigh — 28–29

Stories from Lebanon — In the Days of Emir Fakhr al-Din — Abdullah Hashimeh — 30–31

The World's Most Famous Operas — Samir Shikhani — 32–34

Two Poems: In the Dust and On the Path — by the poet Nazir Azmah — 35

The Memoirs of the Duchess of Windsor (6) — Emily Nasrallah — 36–39

Sami and His Family (3) — Salwa Salah Mash'alani — 40

Picasso... the Destructive Artist — 42–43

Kitchen Matters — Miss J. Ashqar — 44

World Events in a Month — Ziyadeh Awwad — 46–48

In Society — 50–51

In the Happy Home — Nadidah Mardini — 55