Egyptian and Saudi Relations Anwar Sadat with Saudi Monarch at Arab Summit Conference

Saudi Arabia Arab Conference

Photograph

Baltimore Sun photographic archive. Wirephoto showing Egyptian President Anwar Sadat with the King of Saudi Arabia at an Arab summit conference, documenting high-level diplomacy among Arab heads of state during Sadat’s 1970–1981 presidency. Arab summit meetings during this period addressed the Arab-Israeli conflict, Palestinian political claims, relations among Arab states, and regional responses to the 1973 Arab-Israeli War. The supplied information does not identify the Saudi monarch, exact summit, or date, and these details cannot be established from the available description. Arab summits at Algiers in 1973 and Rabat in 1974 formed part of the diplomatic setting of Sadat’s presidency.

Original black-and-white wirephoto measuring approximately 8.3 x 9.1 inches, from the historical photographic archive of The Baltimore Sun and identified as “Arab Summit Conference.” The image depicts Sadat with the Saudi monarch among the participants in the conference. Produced for newspaper transmission, the photograph was scanned and transmitted electronically over communications networks before being printed at the receiving location, a process that allowed American newspapers to reproduce international news images rapidly.

The print preserves both a contemporary image of Egyptian-Saudi diplomatic contact and an artifact of the twentieth-century newspaper system that carried photographs of Middle Eastern political events to American readers. Its documented retention in The Baltimore Sun archive establishes its use within a working newspaper photographic collection. Watermark present; no additional condition defects are stated in the supplied description.

Item #14444

Price: $85.00