a woman of broad culture who directs the woman's corner on the Tunisian radio.
On the occasion of the Tunisian women's delegation's presence in Beirut, the director of the woman's corner on Radio Lebanon, Mrs. Edvick Shayboub, invited it to speak of the progress it had attained. Among what she
said: the Personal Status Code has forbidden polygamy and sentenced violators of this law to prison; it has likewise set a minimum age for marriage, and placed divorce in the hands of the judge — in the hands neither of the woman nor of the man.
The Lifting of the Veil
And whereas the Tunisian woman
once went veiled, the whole new generation is now unveiled, and not many years will pass before all the women of Tunisia go unveiled. The girls of today race toward a bright future, in which each will perform her share of the national responsibility toward her society...
Thus was the Tunisian woman two thousand years ago, according to this picture from the mosaics surviving from the time of the Romans.
Typical features of the Tunisian Bedouin woman, with her two eyes that call to mind the eyes of gazelles.