Maguy Achkar al-Haj Lectures

The hall of al-Nadwa was crowded on the evening of February 14 last to hear the lecture of Mrs. Maguy Achkar al-Haj on 'Woman and Politics.' The occasion was marked by the absence of the women leaders from the lecture...

The lecturer treated her subject in a serious and sober manner, reviewing woman's participation in politics down through history. This participation, she said, had generally come by way of man; she therefore asked that the two — man and woman — cooperate, proceeding from the recognition of her as a human being, so as to profit from her political capacity.

She turned at the last to the electoral side, inasmuch as political activity manifests itself — most of all — through representation in the assemblies of the nation.