Edvick Jureidini Shayboub: The editor-in-chief of Sout al-Maraa

In 1945, the weekly newspaper Sout al-Maraa (Women’s Voice) launched its inaugural issue. Edvick Jureidini Shayboub became the newspaper’s editor-in-chief in 1951. The newspaper was specialised in women’s affairs, from their rights and movements to activism ¹. Shayboub wrote for women and became one of the most prominent writers of children’s fiction ². In 1946 she became among the first woman to work at the Lebanese Radio (Radio Lebanon) after the French handed the station over to the Lebanese government ³. She was also the only woman from the Middle East to be invited to the first International Conference for Radio and Television, hosted in London in 1969 ⁴.