Nihad Maalouf — Camille Geagea
The Church of Our Lady of Gifts in Beirut was packed on January 25 last with the guests invited to the wedding of Miss Nihad Chahine Maalouf to Sheikh Camille Tannous Geagea, deputy public prosecutor of Mount Lebanon.
The bride's sponsor was the family friend, the Deputy Mr. Philippe Takla, and the groom's sponsor was his brother, Dr. Emile Geagea; and His Grace Bishop Eid blessed the wedding.
It is said that a bride always looks lovely; as for Nihad Maalouf, in her gown of white lace with its long train, borne up on the hands of the little ones, she was an artistic tableau of exquisite beauty.
Our congratulations to the bride and groom and to their two esteemed families.
In the middle of last January the marriage contract was celebrated in Damascus of the distinguished, refined young man Akram al-Yousef to the charming young lady Huda Lahham, at a family gathering that brought together the two esteemed families and their closest friends in the bridegroom's magnificent mansion.
The lovely bride comes of a deep-rooted family and holds the baccalaureate certificate; her father, God rest his soul, was honorary consul of Sweden in Damascus and one of the leading men of finance in Syria. She is tall, fair-haired, and blue-eyed, and at the wedding celebration she outshone the baskets of lilies and roses in beauty and splendor, in her flowing gown embroidered with threads of gold — the color of her rich hair!
The bride and groom are still at their home in Damascus. As for the honeymoon in Europe, it has been put off until the beginning of the coming summer, owing to the many duties that oblige the farming bridegroom to remain in his country to supervise in person the course of work on his farms and his broad lands.
We wish the couple, Huda and Akram al-Yousef, the most contented of marriages and the happiest of lives, and our heartfelt congratulations to them and to their two deep-rooted families.
Readers no doubt remember the letter which Dr. Salwa Nassar addressed, in a previous issue of The Woman's Voice, to Dr. Charles Malik, sketching for him a practical plan aimed at reaching a scientific renaissance in Lebanon.
His Excellency the Minister of Foreign Affairs took an interest in Dr. Nassar's project, regarding it as a part of his own larger program of reform. He got in touch with the Lebanese woman of science and asked her to set out the project in detail; and Dr. Nassar bent over the work for a whole night and a whole day, among figures, names, and outlines, and swiftly submitted the result — her ample report. Dr. Malik promised her that he would give the matter the attention it requires...
That was about a month ago, and Dr. Nassar has not yet received any word... She lives in expectation, but her hope is great in the authority who has pledged himself to work for the achievement of the hoped-for scientific renaissance in Lebanon...
She awaits the outcome of Dr. Malik's endeavors... and we wait too. May the waiting, for all of us, not stretch out much longer... for waiting is hard!