--- title: News in Pictures poster, No. 5 (Arabic, Beirut) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/news-in-pictures-no-5-arabic-beirut-1965/ description: 'An Arabic fold-out photo sheet with six captioned news photographs: U.S. grain flown to famine areas of Somalia, a Nigerian Ibo dictionary project.' section: Collection --- 1. [Home](https://propagandaarchive.org/) 2. [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) 3. News in Pictures poster, No. 5 (Arabic, Beirut) [![News in Pictures poster, No. 5, 1965 US poster: An Arabic fold-out photo sheet with six captioned news photographs](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/news-in-pictures-no-5-arabic-beirut-1965.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/news-in-pictures-no-5-arabic-beirut-1965.jpg) # News in Pictures poster, No. 5 (Arabic, Beirut) An Arabic fold-out photo sheet with six captioned news photographs: U.S. grain flown to famine areas of Somalia, a Nigerian Ibo dictionary project, American students singing with Nigerian children, a White House party for orphans, African ambassadors at the UN and students rebuilding a burned church in Mississippi. The tell is card-stacking: aid and goodwill stories are selected, with the White House and Operation Crossroads Africa attached as markers of American good intent. ## Propaganda techniques used in this poster [Card stacking](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/card-stacking/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/) ## Text on the object Original (Arabic) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` الأنباء في صور شحنات من الحبوب الى الصومال [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] قاموس جديد لطلاب نيجيريا [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] الموسيقى وسيلة للتفاهم بين الشعوب [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] حفلة للأيتام الصغار في البيت الأبيض [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] ٣٥ دولة افريقية في الأمم المتحدة [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] طلاب الكليات يتطوعون لإعادة بناء كنيسة [body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation] 65-P-96 (16) ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` NEWS IN PICTURES Grain shipments to Somalia [Body: an American grain shipment flown to Mogadishu for people in drought-stricken areas, about 100 tons by air and 6,900 tons by sea, to be distributed to some 700,000 Somali citizens.] A new dictionary for Nigerian students [Body: Professor Robert Armstrong at Ibadan University is preparing an Ibo-English dictionary; student Felicia Ekejuiba uses a palatograph.] Music as a means of understanding between peoples [Body: Nigerian children and American students of Operation Crossroads Africa sing each other's folk songs.] A party for little orphans at the White House [Body: President Johnson and his family held a party for 150 orphans; the President's daughters played games with the children.] 35 African states in the United Nations [Body: three African ambassadors, Marof (Guinea), El-Kony (United Arab Republic) and Adebo (Nigeria), confer before a General Assembly session; Africa has more U.N. members than any other region.] College students volunteer to rebuild a church [Body: students and teachers of American colleges rebuilt a Baptist church in Mississippi burned after a civil rights rally; Reverend Roy McDonald held the first service on Christmas Day.] ``` Arabic edition. The headlines are transcribed from the image; the small-print body captions are not transcribed word for word and are summarised in the translation field from the sheet's content, which matches the English edition of the same issue. [← Victories in the 41st Tactical Area photo poster (Vietnamese poster distributed in Saigon)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/victories-41st-tactical-area-calendar-vietnamese-1965/) [Photos d'Actualité poster, No. 5 (French, Beirut) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/photos-d-actualite-no-5-french-beirut-1965/) ## More propaganda examples that use the same techniques - [Fragments of the Abydos king list from Ramesses II's temple, in the British Museum: rows of royal cartouches](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/abydos-king-list-ramesses-ii-temple-british-museum/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer) - [Behistun (Bisotun) rock relief and trilingual inscription of Darius I: the king, two attendants and the bound rebel leaders beneath the winged figure of Ahuramazda](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/behistun-relief-darius-and-rebels-521bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Name-calling, Testimonial). Content note: Shows bound captives before the king, and the inscription records the mutilation and public execution of rebel leaders, as the king's own account. - [Tomb of Darius I at Naqsh-e Rustam: the king in relief beside his inscription DNa, c. 490 BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dna-inscription-darius-i-naqsh-e-rustam-490bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Testimonial, Card stacking) - [Line drawing of the Great Kadesh battle relief on the walls of the Ramesseum, from Breasted's History of Egypt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/kadesh-relief-ramesseum-breasted-drawing-1275bce/) (New Kingdom Egypt · 0000 · Card stacking, Transfer). Content note: A drawing of an Egyptian royal battle relief showing Hittite soldiers and horses killed and drowned, as the king's monument presented the battle; it is a one-sided image made by the winning side's own account. - [Persepolis, Apadana staircase relief: a figure with an animal from a procession of delegations, early fifth century BCE](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/persepolis-apadana-delegate-relief-500bce/) (Achaemenid Empire · 0000 · Card stacking, Manufactured consensus) - [Alabaster relief, Assyrian troops storming a citadel, from Nineveh (reign of Sennacherib)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/relief-sennacherib-storming-citadel-nineveh-704bce/) (Neo Assyrian Empire · 0000 · Card stacking). Content note: An Assyrian palace relief of troops storming a fortified city, with a file of figures below; Assyrian royal reliefs and texts record killing, mutilation and deportation, shown as carved, with the historical context and scholarly dispute on the regime page. - [Colour lithograph of the Latin text of the Res Gestae Divi Augusti on the wall of the temple of Roma and Augustus at Ancyra, with the heading in large letters (Perrot, Guillaume and Delbet, 1872)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/lithograph-res-gestae-ancyra-heading-0014/) (Roman Empire · 0014 · Card stacking, Glittering generalities) - [Silver denarius of Vespasian, reverse IVDAEA with a trophy of arms and a seated mourning woman](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/denarius-vespasian-judaea-capta-0070/) (Roman Empire · 0070 · Card stacking). Content note: A Roman victory coin showing a mourning female figure as the personification of the conquered province of Judaea after the Roman suppression of the Jewish revolt; shown as struck, with the historical context on the regime page.