Habbouba Haddad Is Dead

• One of the pioneers of the women's renaissance in Lebanon, death folded her away on December 8, at sixty years of age spent in the struggle. She never once laid down her arms: to the last day of her life, and for twenty years, she spoke every Thursday afternoon to her friends, the little children, from the house of Radio Lebanon.

• Her culture was English, and her life was filled with travels. She founded in Paris the magazine "The New Life," then reestablished it in Beirut between 1920 and 1926 — a monthly women's magazine.

• She presided over the Association of Working Women at the beginning of the French Mandate, and published her articles in Lebanese and American magazines and newspapers.

• In recognition of her efforts and of her services to the rising generation, the Lebanese government awarded her last summer the exalted Order of the Cedars, and His Excellency President Chamoun pinned it upon her breast.

• She left in the world an only son to carry on the battle of her struggle: Mr. Fouad Haddad, head of the Department of Arts in the Ministry of Education and Fine Arts, and one of our men of letters of a distinctive stamp.

• She was borne to her last resting place from the Greek Catholic Cathedral of Mar Elias, in a solemn ceremony in which the government shared with the family of the deceased and her friends their anguish and sorrow.

• "The Woman's Voice," as it offers to her son Mr. Fouad Haddad its due condolences, beseeches God to flood the noble departed with everlasting bliss and eternal rest in His spacious paradise.