Middle Eastern Film Posters Digitization Initiative

Middle Eastern Film Posters Digitization Initiative

from Princeton University Digital Library (PUDL)

"Princeton University Library’s Arabic Movie Posters and Lobby Cards Collection was acquired in Lebanon in 2008 and is comprised of 1,748 posters and 768 lobby cards. Egyptian posters predominate with 1,474, reflecting the unchallenged prominence of Egypt in the production of Arabic feature films. Some 150 posters are for Lebanese films, 113 Syrian and 11 Iraqi. The purpose of the posters was to advertize coming attractions, and they represent films produced from 1935 to 2007. Most of the posters are on standard Arab single-sheet size paper. However, many are on non-standard sheets. Similarly, there are posters that are composed on multiple sheets, including some on twenty-four sheets meant for display on the side of multi-story buildings. The lobbies cards, also for coming attractions and meant for display in theater lobbies, are composed of multiple still shots taken on movie sets and affixed to standard–sized cardboard. They represent 172 films produced in Egypt (145), Lebanon (13) and Syria (14) from 1964 to 2007."

Poster Collection at the American University of Beirut

Poster Collection at the American University of Beirut - Jafet Library
Political posters collected between the 1960s and the 1980s.
This collection covers two main topics: Palestinian Question and Lebanon and the Lebanese Civil War.

They include the following sections:

• Palestine Liberation Organization (82posters):Nos.1-81
• The Other Palestinian Organizations (63 posters):Nos. 83-145
• The Lebanese Left (75 posters):Nos. 146-220
• The Progressive Socialist Party (65 posters):Nos. 221-285
• The South and the Resistance (58 posters):Nos. 286-343
• The Lebanese Right (21 posters):Nos. 344-364,

Signs of Conflict Archive - Political Posters of Lebanon Civil War (1975-1990)

Signs of Conflict Archive - Political Posters of Lebanon Civil War (1975-1990)

"Signs of Conflict Archive is an online public resource of poster collections from the Lebanese civil war period (1975-90).
The posters have been documented from different sources: political party archives, personal collections of partisans, library collections in and outside Lebanon, and private collectors. Whenever possible, each poster in the archive is annotated with its collection source.
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Posters are free to download in low-resolution files for non-commercial use.
SoC Archive does not intermediate in questions about copyrights held by third parties. Users are responsible for conforming to all relevant statutory provisions concerning copyright.For further information read our website TERMS of USE."

Palestine Poster Project Archives

 [First posted 7/18/2012 ; updated 12/13/12]

Palestine Poster Project Archives features almost 8,000 posters which are searchable according to artists’ names, iconography, date of publication, source, theme, exhibition record and other variables. The PPPA also contains almost 3,000 Zionist/Israeli posters  dating from the turn of the 20^th century up to the present.