May Ziadeh is one of the most famous Arab writers of the first half of the twentieth century, and her letters with the poet Gibran Khalil Gibran are among the most wonderful literary letters. In this book, the author provides a comprehensive summary of the life of this Lebanese writer, who lived in Egypt and was known for her high-class literary salon. In a very exciting style, he narrates her memories of her upbringing and early life, and then the hopes, dreams, joys and sorrows that followed her childhood. He tells how May Ziadeh inspired poets and writers, quoting her letters exchanged with a large number of them other than Gibran, such as Antoun Gemayel and Amin al-Rihani, and with writers who loved her, such as al-Aqqad and Ahmed Lutfi al-Sayyid.
