news · Issue No. 3, March 1957 · p. 37

University Women, University Women!

الجامعيات الجامعيات !

The University Women's Union, headed by Dr. Zahia Kaddoura, held at the beginning of last month a luncheon at the Alumni Club of the American University, in the course of which one of the leaders of education in Lebanon, Mrs. Faiza Antiba, lectured on education...

And again, on February 27, the 'Association of Women University Graduates,' headed by Dr. Edma Abouchdid, gave a dinner at the Bristol Hotel under the patronage of the First Lady of Lebanon, in celebration of the fourth anniversary of the association's founding...

And we, who appreciate in the university women this activity of theirs, cannot but ask: how long are we to keep two associations in Lebanon? What, one wonders, prevents the joining of the two institutions into a single association, after the example of the forty-eight other countries belonging to the International Federation of University Women? All the matter requires is some largeness of heart and some tolerance — and we have always known the 'university women' to be the very first who ought to possess such qualities.

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