[SOVIET PROPAGANDA IN THE ARAB WORLD / THE SOVIET SPACE PROGRAM] دراسات علميّة سوفيتية نشرة غيُردورة يوليو سنه ١٩٥٨ / Darâsât ilmiyyat Sofyatiyyat: Nashrat Gerdora Yuliyu, fî sana 1958 [i.e., Soviet Scientific Studies, Gerdora Bulletin, July 1958]. No. 1

THE USSR PROPAGANDA IN EGYPT. The USSR Embassy Press Office in the United Arab Republic (UAR), Cairo, 1958. Contemporary full green cloth in Egyptian style, contemporary white endpapers, gilt lettering of title on front board and gilt decorations on spine. Original pictorial cover saved inside. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In Arabic. 88 p., 12 b/w ills. including drawings and reproduced photographic plates. Extremely rare unrecorded first issue of this Soviet propaganda organ published in Cairo, the centre of the UAR, by the USSR Propaganda Press Office, with a striking cover design depicting the Sputniks in space, celebrating the third anniversary of the Kosmicheskaya programma SSSR. The content begins with a comparison between the Soviet and American satellites. A full-paged photograph shows the Muscovites reading newspapers about the launch of the third Soviet satellite into space. In the periodical, many details such as the construction processes and technical specifications of the sat