Specters from Mai's life

Miss Mai Ziadeh was a teacher alone. She was a brilliant writer, an insightful thinker, and a conservative Arab. She combined the literature of emotion, the literature of the soul, and the love of preserving traditions. She supported freedom of thought, abstained from pettiness, and never mentioned anything bad to anyone. Her sessions and her literary salon were the best evidence of the sweetness of conversation, the purity of the soul, the gentleness of the senses, the tenderness of emotio...