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title: News in Pictures poster, No. 8 (Arabic, Beirut)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/news-in-pictures-no-8-arabic-beirut-1965/
description: An Arabic fold-out photo sheet headed 'News in Pictures', with a large United Nations photograph of African delegates and the Upper Volta president.
section: Collection
---

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# News in Pictures poster, No. 8 (Arabic, Beirut)

An Arabic fold-out photo sheet headed 'News in Pictures', with a large United Nations photograph of African delegates and the Upper Volta president, plus pictures of a White House reception, an African music and dance festival and a Liberian trainee at a U.S. air traffic tower. It presents US-African contact as the news of the week. The tell is card-stacking: only friendly visits and exchanges are chosen, and the White House and UN settings transfer their standing to the stories.

## 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

رئيس فولتا العليا يزور الولايات المتحدة
[body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation]

الألحان الأفريقية تتألق في المهرجان الموسيقي أثناء أداء رقصة «الباتاكوتو»
[body caption in small print not transcribed; see translation]

[remaining small-print photo captions not transcribed]

65-P-146 (16)
```

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

```
NEWS IN PICTURES

The President of Upper Volta visits the United States
[Body: the United Nations welcomed President Maurice Yameogo of Upper Volta; he was also a guest at the White House and received an honorary doctorate of laws in California; the photograph at left shows him on the stage with other officials.]

African melodies shine at the music festival during the performance of the 'Batakoto' dance
[Body: a performance at Howard University in Washington during International Week, with African drumming and dance, as part of a non-Arab-world music festival.]

[Other photographs show: a Liberian trainee at the air traffic control tower of a New York airport; Mrs. Lyndon Johnson receiving women from thirty-three-nation Christian youth association delegates; and a student gathering.]
```

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. A few captions are summarised from partial reading.

[← Voyage to Mars poster, English edition (English poster distributed in Beirut)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/voyage-to-mars-poster-english-1965/) [Pictures in the News poster, No. 8 (English poster distributed in Beirut) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pictures-in-the-news-8-english-beirut-1965/)

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