This scrapbook--created by the Social Research Center at the American University in Cairo--documents life in Nubia through photographs. Topics include work, leisure, architecture, and agriculture among other subjects. Some pages are missing photographs.
"A Victorian commonplace book (similar to a scrapbook)this one was written by a Robert JohnsonJuniorin 1846. Topics include a poem written about his brother's deathdiary entries describing Ibrahim Pasha as well as a cricket matchfireworksand performances. Several of the pages are written in shorthand."
Scrapbook compiled by Denys Johnson-Davies containing newspaper articles published in locations highlighting his work. The scrapbook is part of the Denys Johnson-Davies Papers at the AUC Rare Books and Special Collections Library. Johnson-Davies (1922 - 2017) was one of the foremost Arabic-to-English literary translators, translating novels, short stories, plays, and poetry by prominent literary figures like Naguib Mahfouz.\r\n\r\n