ABSTRACT
THE most wonderful woman among the Druses to-day—and probably in all Western Arabia—is the Sitt Nazira el Jumblatt, the famous Veiled Lady of Mukhtara. She rules like a queen of ancient times in a wild mountain district of the Lebanon, between the Djebel and the coast. She is the present head of her branch of the Jumblatt family, who were princes of Aleppo in the sixteenth century and claim descent from Saladin.
