The Free Press · Carbondale, Illinois · 15 July 1947

CP-1947-037

Syrian Will Speak Here

Transcribed from the clipping

“Church groups, women’s clubs and other women’s organizations are especially invited to attend the lecture here Thursday evening by Mrs. Alice Kandaleft Cosma, educator and Syrian diplomat, Southern Illinois University officials have announced. Mrs. Cosma will be presented by the university as part of its summer cultural and entertainment program. She will speak at 8 p. m. in Shryock auditorium. A representative of the Syrian Government to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, Mrs. Cosma has headed several women’s colleges and universities in her native country. She founded the Arab Women’s National League and served as its first president, and also served as chairman of the Arab Women’s Congress for the Defense of Palestine. In 1946 she was the only woman to testify before the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine. Her lecture, on the subject ‘Current Problems in the Arab Middle East,’ will be open to the public.”

Context added by this archive

A college lecture notice that turns out to contain a biography. She founded the Arab Women’s National League, chaired the Arab Women’s Congress for the Defense of Palestine, and in 1946 was the only woman of any nationality to testify before the Anglo-American Committee. The headline calls her a Syrian. The archive holds the first Arab Women’s Congress, unnamed and uncounted except by its motorcade, eighteen years earlier.

Cite this item

"Syrian Will Speak Here," The Free Press, 15 July 1947. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1947-037. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1947-037

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