Samira Azzam Hassan!

Our friend Miss Samira Azzam has chosen to try her luck in a new activity: she has accepted an engagement ring presented to her by Mr. Adib Hassan, director of the "Ford" automobile company in Iraq. This took place in Baghdad, where Samira held a senior post last year at the Iraqi Broadcasting Station. She is now our guest, to complete the requirements of the marriage. Samira is too wise to entangle herself in a big wedding... naturally, there must be a brief wedding ceremony,

held at her home in Beirut, after which she will fly with her bridegroom to their new place of residence — Baghdad.

As we wish her every good and every happiness, we ask of Samira that her literary life after marriage remain as we have known it, fertile and giving, and that it not be stricken with barrenness, as is the case with most of the daughters of her sex; and we ask her also not to forget us in the flood of her new life, but to let her flights of fancy and her stories look in on us from time to time.