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title: State Information Service billboard 'A durable peace based on justice is our aim' (Cairo, 1979)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/egypt-sis-durable-peace-billboard-cairo-1979/
description: 'Roadside billboard in Cairo on the day of President Carter''s arrival, photographed with a cheering, police-lined crowd in front of it: painted portraits…'
section: Collection
---

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# State Information Service billboard 'A durable peace based on justice is our aim' (Cairo, 1979)

Roadside billboard in Cairo on the day of President Carter's arrival, photographed with a cheering, police-lined crowd in front of it: painted portraits of Carter (left) and Sadat (right) flank the line 'A durable peace based on justice is our aim' in English and Arabic, credited to the State Information Service. The tell: the virtue words 'durable', 'peace' and 'justice' carry the message with no terms, parties or borders named.

## Text on the object

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

```
A DURABLE PEACE
BASED ON JUSTICE IS OUR AIM

هدفنا
هو السلام الدائم القائم على العدل

STATE INFORM[obscured] SERVICE
الهيئة العامة للاستعلامات
```

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

```
A DURABLE PEACE BASED ON JUSTICE IS OUR AIM

Our aim / is durable peace founded on justice

STATE INFORM[ATION, obscured] SERVICE
The General Authority for Information
```

Arabic and English lines are the same message. The middle of 'INFORMATION' is hidden behind a photograph held up in the crowd in front of the sign. 'AIM' is painted with a gap between I and M. Arabic translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

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