Where life is not worth much, death has its price
Sergio Leone
Middle Eastern Posters Collection 1970s-1990s
Painting of a young Afghan boy ripping a flag carrying the hammer and
sickle in half, 1988
Description: Above his head reads: "God is Great." Below
caption reads: Afghanistan: The end of aggression."
Country of Origin: Afghanistan/Pakistan
Issuing Office or Group: Private -Idarah-i Markazi-i Film-i Jami'at-i
Islami-i Afghanistan
Artist: A. H. Ashna
Language: Dari/English
Two attached posters with color photos of Vietnam War-era atrocities,
1980
Description: Top caption for poster on right is a quotation from
Ayatollah Khomeini that reads: We all need to unify and resist and remove this
contagion of corruption [jarsumah-i fisad] from the annals of history. Main
photo is of a dead young Vietnamese girl with other children looking on.
Caption below reads: "My daughter, what adornment is more beautiful than
the honorable rouge of blood on your cheeks? Open your eyes and see your
brothers who have placed a bullet strip on their chest rather than the cross
and have sworn to string up the body of Imperialism here." Top caption for
poster on the left reads: "Vietnam: the humiliator of the Great Satan
America. The Great Yazid of the Age is responsible for a new Karbala every day.
Caption below photo of severed head of Vietnamese man is quotation from
Ayatollah Khomeini: "Oh Christian nation, why did Carter not turn to
prayer for the massacres in Iran, Vietnam, Palestine, Lebanon, and other regions?"
Country of Origin: Iran
Language: Persian
Photo collage of devastation wrought by Iraqi bombing campaigns, 1980s
Description: Caption reads: "For an aggressor nothing other than
creating crises and aggressive desires are pertinent. It is for this very
reason that Iraq wants to cause the people to be displaced with its bombing of
the residential areas. In this way it intends to pressure the Islamic Republic
of Iran."
Country of Origin: Iran
Issuing Office or Group: Government (Ministry of Islamic Guidance)
Language: English
Outline map of Soviet Union and Afghanistan, 1989
Description: Hand emerging from hammer and sickle in Soviet Union is
incinerated upon entry into Afghanistan, along with the symbol of the People's
Democratic Party of Afghanistan, by stylized script of the word 'Jihad,"
where the "a" is pistol. Above caption reads: "The end of
aggression" Caption in center right of poster from the Koran reads:
"Such is the reward of oppressors wrong-doers
Country of Origin: Afghanistan
Issuing Office or Group: Government (Ministry of Information, Islamic
Interim Government of Afghanistan [Vizarat-i Da'vat va Irshad-i Hukumat-i
Muvaqqat-i Islami-i Afghanistan])
Artist: Abd al-Hayy Pupalzay
Language: Dari/English
Photograph of a small boy holding a Kalashnikov in one hand and food in
the other, 1980s
Description: Bottom caption reads: "I love you o children of the
Islamic world. I am standing at the gates of Kabul and I will get my revenge on
Russia."
Country of Origin: Afghanistan
Issuing Office or Group: Private (Ittihad-i Islami-i Afghanistan)
Language: Arabic/Dari
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