When woman challenges man at his own work... and succeeds!
The motto of the Ahliah Institution
"I do not want my house to be walled in on every side, nor do I want my windows to be shut. I want the cultures of all nations to blow upon my house with all possible freedom, but I refuse to let any one of them uproot me from my feet. My creed is not a closed mind; in it there is room for the least of God's creatures, but it stands proof against overweening pride — the pride of race, or religion, or color."
"Gandhi"
How beautiful it is for a person to live his life in defiance! Defying brute nature, defying ignorance and poverty and disease, defying fate and destiny, defying the rugged paths of life! And my friend Angele Abboud... lives her working life in defiance — defying men: she defies that sweat which pours from their brows, and pours forth greater quantities of it herself... she defies the hours of work they
spend behind their desks, inquiring, digging, researching — and she herself spends more hours... she defies their swift movement among the sites of their work... and she moves with a nimbler lightness... she defies their simple clothes, far removed from artifice and expense... and wears clothes simpler still! She
plunged into that field of business which until a very short time ago remained — and but for her would still remain — the preserve of men alone... the field of publishing... She was the first girl to storm that world of man's, founding an establishment for printing and publishing on which she bestowed the name: the Ahliah
Behind her she displays the collection of books the Institution has published...