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title: Al Hayat fi Amrika No. 31 promotion poster (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/al-hayat-fi-amrika-no-31-arabic-1964/
description: A landscape promotion sheet for issue 31 of 'Life in America', a special number on New York City. Tagged by technique, with source and rights.
section: Collection
---

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# Al Hayat fi Amrika No. 31 promotion poster (Arabic poster distributed in Beirut)

A landscape promotion sheet for issue 31 of 'Life in America', a special number on New York City. A colour photograph of lit skyscrapers at dusk, a wide black-and-white panorama of the harbour with ferries and a liner, and a night-time strip of office windows sit on a blue ground. The tell is glittering generalities: the city is shown through scale, light and harbour views, and the text only announces the issue and asks readers to order it.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)

## Text on the object

Original (Arabic) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
الحياة في
٣١
أمريكا

عدد خاص
عن مدينة
نيويورك

اطلبه من الباعة في أوائل تشرين الأول (أكتوبر)
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Life in America, 31. A special issue on the city of New York. Ask for it from vendors in early Tishrin al-Awwal (October).
```

No imprint, issuer or credit line is printed on the sheet.

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