Arabic translation:
This is my path in the struggle (fight)
Brother complete my struggle
Curator's note: According to Hosni Radwan this poster is the template for First Armed Action of Al Assifa
Begin forwarded message: From: amed@loc.gov Date: May 3, 2010 4:28:40 PM EDT To: liberation@igc.org Subject: Library Question - Answer [Question #5558664] Reply-To: "amed@loc.gov" Hello Dan Hi Dan, Thank you for your kind e-mail, I will try and link your website to our Portals to the World site as per your request. As for seeing the posters in P&P, I am sure you can, that is why I suggesting calling them and finding out who you need to talk to directly. I imagine you would need to make an appointment and you can come in and look at them. Also, if the Fatah poster is there, then you should be able to see that as well. I personally tried various methods to enlarge that bottom caption, but it keeps pix-elating and so I cannot get a clear image, so I can't really make out what it says... I can tell you that it does not state "The Palestinian National Liberation Movement", but I cannot make out a clear name either, it seems like scribbles, but I can't tell for sure, to be perfectly honest. I saw you sent out another inquiry which was assigned to me, but I hope it was rerouted to P&P. Good luck with your research, Best Regards, Muhannad Salhi, Ph.D. Arab World Specialist The Near East Section African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress ----------------------- Please take a moment to fill out a survey at: < http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.ask.PatronSurveyForm?&... > ----------------------- Question History: Patron: this poster is part of the Yanker gift to the LOC...I have not seen it at the LOC site but it is in Yanker's book "Prop Art" http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/this-is-my-path Is it possible for you to take a close up digital shot of the Arabic text at the very bottom of the poster on the right hand side? This research is directly related to my masters thesis project at Georgetown University. Thank you! Librarian 1: Greetings, Thank you for your inquiry, the Yanker collection you are referring to is indeed available at the Library of Congress, it is in the Prints and Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/ If you search their catalog, you will get this: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005682803/?sid=1c8fbffc8eefab33b658f20... Unfortunately the collection does not appear to have been digitized yet, so I imagine you would have to contact them and/or come in and make an appointment to see the collection. Since the collection is held by the Prints and Photographs Division, they are the ones you should contact regarding taking a close-up digital shot. If you don't mind my asking, are you trying to determine what the small handwritten phrase in Arabic (below the declaration) says? or, what is the purpose of this request exactly? Best Regards, Muhannad Salhi, Ph.D. Arab World Specialist The Near East Section African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress Patron: Hello Muhannad, Thanks for your reply. Yes, I am trying to determine the actual content of the missing Arabic text BELOW the main caption. I was a bit confused by the Ask A Librarian response because I have written to this window in the past regarding the Yanker Collection and received the macro digital shots I had requested. Am I mistaken that the Ask A Librarian inquiries do not go to the section of the Library that actually has the posters? I have another question and maybe this too should go to P and P...can anyone tell me if the posters in the book "Prop Art" which has over 1,000 posters collected by Gary Yanker, are actually the Yanker Collection at LOC? In other words, is Prop Art a catalog of sorts for the collection or is it possible that there are posters in the book that are not in the LOC? Many thanks! BTW...this is my graduate research project at Georgetown...a web archives of 2,400 posters related to the Palestinian-Zionist conflict. I have another 3,000 to 3,500 more on hand to upload and more come in every day. I would like very much to hear any comments you may have about it. Best, Dan Walsh On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:49 AM, amed@loc.gov wrote: Hello Dan Greetings, Thank you for your inquiry, the Yanker collection you are referring to is indeed available at the Library of Congress, it is in the Prints and Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/ If you search their catalog, you will get this: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005682803/?sid=1c8fbffc8eefab33b658f20... Unfortunately the collection does not appear to have been digitized yet, so I imagine you would have to contact them and/or come in and make an appointment to see the collection. Since the collection is held by the Prints and Photographs Division, they are the ones you should contact regarding taking a close-up digital shot. If you don't mind my asking, are you trying to determine what the small handwritten phrase in Arabic (below the declaration) says? or, what is the purpose of this request exactly? Best Regards, Muhannad Salhi, Ph.D. Arab World Specialist The Near East Section African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress ----------------------- Please take a moment to fill out a survey at: < http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.ask.PatronSurveyForm?&... ----------------------- Question History: Patron: this poster is part of the Yanker gift to the LOC...I have not seen it at the LOC site but it is in Yanker's book "Prop Art" http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/this-is-my-path Is it possible for you to take a close up digital shot of the Arabic text at the very bottom of the poster on the right hand side? This research is directly related to my masters thesis project at Georgetown University. Thank you! Librarian 1: Greetings, Thank you for your inquiry, the Yanker collection you are referring to is indeed available at the Library of Congress, it is in the Prints and Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/ If you search their catalog, you will get this: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005682803/?sid=1c8fbffc8eefab33b658f20... Unfortunately the collection does not appear to have been digitized yet, so I imagine you would have to contact them and/or come in and make an appointment to see the collection. Since the collection is held by the Prints and Photographs Division, they are the ones you should contact regarding taking a close-up digital shot. If you don't mind my asking, are you trying to determine what the small handwritten phrase in Arabic (below the declaration) says? or, what is the purpose of this request exactly? Best Regards, Muhannad Salhi, Ph.D. Arab World Specialist The Near East Section African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress To check the status or the history of your library question(s), go to: http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.ask.PatronDirect?&lang... Thank you for consulting the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. Librarian 1: Hi Dan, Thanks for your e-mail, to be perfectly honest, I am not familiar with the book "Prop Art", so I couldn't tell you which posters are available here and which are just in the book, but according to the record, the Yanker collection consists of 3,500 posters. I figured that that must be what you were looking for, I copied the poster to my personal file and tried to enlarge the caption as much as I could while it was still legible... I still can't make it out exactly, but I will let you know if I come up with anything. As to the questionpoint queries, or Ask A Librarian, from what I can gather, they are sent to main center and then sent to each division according to subject, in this case since the subject concerned the Middle East, it was sent to the African and Middle Eastern Division. It might be easier if you called P&P directly and asked whom you should talk to or e-mail. As for your site, I was actually looking at it, it is very good, I was even considering adding the link to our LC's Portals to the World website maybe? would you be interested in that? otherwise, I think you've done a great job, really. I hope P&P are able to help you further, and keep up the great work! I definitely will be recommending your site to others, please continue to upload more posters as you get them. Best Regards, Muhannad Salhi, Ph.D. Arab World Specialist The Near East Section African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress Patron: Hello Muhannad, Thanks so much for your swift and very useful replies. Yes, I would like it very much if you linked the PPPA site to the LOC's Portals to the World website. Thank you so much for this. As to the Yanker Collection, some questions and if you are not the right person to address them to just let me know, OK? Q: What is the correct "Ask A Librarian" email or URL to use to connect with the P & P people? Q: Is it possible for a researcher (me) to actually SEE the 3,500 posters from the Yanker Collection? This is a very exciting bit of information you have passed on to me because in the book, "Prop Art" there are exactly 25 posters related to the Palestinian-Zionist conflict: http://www.palestineposterproject.org/category/special-collection/prop-a... I met Gary years ago in NYC...it would be very interesting to see all the posters and learn if there are other Palestine-Zionism posters in the collection. Where would I go to get an answer to this? Q: Would it be possible to see the Fatah poster? I am assuming that since it is in the book it MIGHT be accessioned? Probably the caption says in Arabic: The Palestinian National Liberation Movement....BUT it might say instead the name of the person who the caption came from. This is what I am trying to learn. It is the template for another very important poster at the site which you can see by toggling the hot link in the Caption. Again, thanks for your professionalism and assistance, Dan Hi Dan, Thanks for your e-mail, to be perfectly honest, I am not familiar with the book "Prop Art", so I couldn't tell you which posters are available here and which are just in the book, but according to the record, the Yanker collection consists of 3,500 posters. I figured that that must be what you were looking for, I copied the poster to my personal file and tried to enlarge the caption as much as I could while it was still legible... I still can't make it out exactly, but I will let you know if I come up with anything. As to the questionpoint queries, or Ask A Librarian, from what I can gather, they are sent to main center and then sent to each division according to subject, in this case since the subject concerned the Middle East, it was sent to the African and Middle Eastern Division. It might be easier if you called P&P directly and asked whom you should talk to or e-mail. As for your site, I was actually looking at it, it is very good, I was even considering adding the link to our LC's Portals to the World website maybe? would you be interested in that? otherwise, I think you've done a great job, really. I hope P&P are able to help you further, and keep up the great work! I definitely will be recommending your site to others, please continue to upload more posters as you get them. Best Regards, Muhannad Salhi, Ph.D. Arab World Specialist The Near East Section African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress ----------------------- Please take a moment to fill out a survey at: < http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.ask.PatronSurveyForm?&... ----------------------- Question History: Patron: this poster is part of the Yanker gift to the LOC...I have not seen it at the LOC site but it is in Yanker's book "Prop Art" http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/this-is-my-path Is it possible for you to take a close up digital shot of the Arabic text at the very bottom of the poster on the right hand side? This research is directly related to my masters thesis project at Georgetown University. Thank you! Librarian 1: Greetings, Thank you for your inquiry, the Yanker collection you are referring to is indeed available at the Library of Congress, it is in the Prints and Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/ If you search their catalog, you will get this: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005682803/?sid=1c8fbffc8eefab33b658f20... Unfortunately the collection does not appear to have been digitized yet, so I imagine you would have to contact them and/or come in and make an appointment to see the collection. Since the collection is held by the Prints and Photographs Division, they are the ones you should contact regarding taking a close-up digital shot. If you don't mind my asking, are you trying to determine what the small handwritten phrase in Arabic (below the declaration) says? or, what is the purpose of this request exactly? Best Regards, Muhannad Salhi, Ph.D. Arab World Specialist The Near East Section African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress Patron: Hello Muhannad, Thanks for your reply. Yes, I am trying to determine the actual content of the missing Arabic text BELOW the main caption. I was a bit confused by the Ask A Librarian response because I have written to this window in the past regarding the Yanker Collection and received the macro digital shots I had requested. Am I mistaken that the Ask A Librarian inquiries do not go to the section of the Library that actually has the posters? I have another question and maybe this too should go to P and P...can anyone tell me if the posters in the book "Prop Art" which has over 1,000 posters collected by Gary Yanker, are actually the Yanker Collection at LOC? In other words, is Prop Art a catalog of sorts for the collection or is it possible that there are posters in the book that are not in the LOC? Many thanks! BTW...this is my graduate research project at Georgetown...a web archives of 2,400 posters related to the Palestinian-Zionist conflict. I have another 3,000 to 3,500 more on hand to upload and more come in every day. I would like very much to hear any comments you may have about it. Best, Dan Walsh On Apr 30, 2010, at 11:49 AM, amed@loc.gov wrote: Hello Dan Greetings, Thank you for your inquiry, the Yanker collection you are referring to is indeed available at the Library of Congress, it is in the Prints and Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/ If you search their catalog, you will get this: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005682803/?sid=1c8fbffc8eefab33b658f20... Unfortunately the collection does not appear to have been digitized yet, so I imagine you would have to contact them and/or come in and make an appointment to see the collection. Since the collection is held by the Prints and Photographs Division, they are the ones you should contact regarding taking a close-up digital shot. If you don't mind my asking, are you trying to determine what the small handwritten phrase in Arabic (below the declaration) says? or, what is the purpose of this request exactly? Best Regards, Muhannad Salhi, Ph.D. Arab World Specialist The Near East Section African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress ----------------------- Please take a moment to fill out a survey at: < http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.ask.PatronSurveyForm?&... ----------------------- Question History: Patron: this poster is part of the Yanker gift to the LOC...I have not seen it at the LOC site but it is in Yanker's book "Prop Art" http://www.palestineposterproject.org/poster/this-is-my-path Is it possible for you to take a close up digital shot of the Arabic text at the very bottom of the poster on the right hand side? This research is directly related to my masters thesis project at Georgetown University. Thank you! Librarian 1: Greetings, Thank you for your inquiry, the Yanker collection you are referring to is indeed available at the Library of Congress, it is in the Prints and Photographs Division: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/ If you search their catalog, you will get this: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005682803/?sid=1c8fbffc8eefab33b658f20... Unfortunately the collection does not appear to have been digitized yet, so I imagine you would have to contact them and/or come in and make an appointment to see the collection. Since the collection is held by the Prints and Photographs Division, they are the ones you should contact regarding taking a close-up digital shot. If you don't mind my asking, are you trying to determine what the small handwritten phrase in Arabic (below the declaration) says? or, what is the purpose of this request exactly? Best Regards, Muhannad Salhi, Ph.D. Arab World Specialist The Near East Section African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress To check the status or the history of your library question(s), go to: http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.ask.PatronDirect?&lang... Thank you for consulting the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. Librarian 1: Hi Dan, Thanks for your e-mail, to be perfectly honest, I am not familiar with the book "Prop Art", so I couldn't tell you which posters are available here and which are just in the book, but according to the record, the Yanker collection consists of 3,500 posters. I figured that that must be what you were looking for, I copied the poster to my personal file and tried to enlarge the caption as much as I could while it was still legible... I still can't make it out exactly, but I will let you know if I come up with anything. As to the questionpoint queries, or Ask A Librarian, from what I can gather, they are sent to main center and then sent to each division according to subject, in this case since the subject concerned the Middle East, it was sent to the African and Middle Eastern Division. It might be easier if you called P&P directly and asked whom you should talk to or e-mail. As for your site, I was actually looking at it, it is very good, I was even considering adding the link to our LC's Portals to the World website maybe? would you be interested in that? otherwise, I think you've done a great job, really. I hope P&P are able to help you further, and keep up the great work! I definitely will be recommending your site to others, please continue to upload more posters as you get them. Best Regards, Muhannad Salhi, Ph.D. Arab World Specialist The Near East Section African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress To check the status or the history of your library question(s), go to: http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.ask.PatronDirect?&lang... Thank you for consulting the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress. Librarian 1: Hi Dan, Thank you for your kind e-mail, I will try and link your website to our Portals to the World site as per your request. As for seeing the posters in P&P, I am sure you can, that is why I suggesting calling them and finding out who you need to talk to directly. I imagine you would need to make an appointment and you can come in and look at them. Also, if the Fatah poster is there, then you should be able to see that as well. I personally tried various methods to enlarge that bottom caption, but it keeps pix-elating and so I cannot get a clear image, so I can't really make out what it says... I can tell you that it does not state "The Palestinian National Liberation Movement", but I cannot make out a clear name either, it seems like scribbles, but I can't tell for sure, to be perfectly honest. I saw you sent out another inquiry which was assigned to me, but I hope it was rerouted to P&P. Good luck with your research, Best Regards, Muhannad Salhi, Ph.D. Arab World Specialist The Near East Section African and Middle Eastern Division The Library of Congress To check the status or the history of your library question(s), go to: http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.ask.PatronDirect?&lang... Thank you for consulting the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress.