Edma Bayouth

Abstract

Edma Bayouth's name is not only I inked to that of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Lebanon. It also recalls Lebanese social work at the stage when it tried to evolve into an organized or systematic activity based on study, inquiry, cooperation and dedication, four characteristics adopted by this militant woman who gave to extensive social work more than fifty years of her I ife and has become so identified with it that now, after two years of retirement, she maintains contact with her work, moved by the same enthusiasm that characterized her when she started it at the age of twenty.