Heidelberg Research Architecture The Abou Naddara Collection
The Project
During the research work for her Ph.D. thesis from 2008 to 2011, Eliane Ursula Ettmüller collected all of James Sanua’s (1839-1912 يعقوب صنوع ) publications available. Mrs. Eva Milhaud kindly gave her permission to digitize Sanua’s legacy and to make it available to interested readers and researchers all over the world. Thanks to Prof. Dr. Nagua Ibrahim Anous, the missing newspaper series were scanned from the reprints published by Dar Sader in Beirut in 1974.
The project to produce a website of James Sanua’s complete works derived from Project B1 “Gauging Cultural Asymmetries: Asian Satire and the Search for Identity in the Era of Colonialism and Imperialism” headed by Prof. Dr. Hans Harder at the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” of Heidelberg University from which it received its major funding. It was realized in a collaborative endeavor with the Visual Resources Team of the Heidelberg Research Architecture.
Digital Output
The Abou Naddara Collection offers the complete newspapers published by the Egyptian nationalist James Sanua from 1878 to 1910. In addition, formerly unpublished manuscripts by the same author, articles from newspapers of the period about the journalist and his oeuvre, as well as the decorations he received, will also become available here.
Data set
The data set contains the bibliographic descriptions of the majority of James Sanua's magazines from 1878 to 1910. Publication records are provided in MODS XML and include the publication title in Arabic, western transcription, and English or French translation (using the Translation on the originals, if available), the date of each issue in Arabic and western notation, as well as issue number and number of pages. Scans were produced in tiff format at 300 ppi, 8bit.
Data was compiled by Eliane Ursula Ettmueller, Matthias Arnold, Johannes Alisch, Nina Sassani, Florian Kempf, and Hans Harder in 2017.
Publication
Eliane Ettmüller's Ph.D. thesis has been published as "The Construct of Egypt's National-Self in James Sanua's Early Satire & Caricature", Studien zum Modernen Orient 22, Klaus Schwarz Verlag 2012 (now a part of De Gruyter). DOI: 10.1515/9783112208908.
