Access to newspapers published by James Sanua between 1878 and 1910 has hitherto been difficult. The journalistic and artistic material of the Paris-exiled egyptian nationalist has therefore hardly received the scholarly attention it arguably deserves. During research for her PhD dissertation “The Construction of a National Self through the Definition of its Enemy in James Sanua’s Early Satirical Writings” Eliane Ettmueller was able to collect James Sanua’s complete works and—even more importantly—the majority of the originals of his newspapers. Mrs Eva Milhaud kindly gave her permission to have Sanua’s legacy digitized and to make it available to the international community.

This collection offers the complete newspaper series published by Sanua (1839-1912). In addition, previously unpublished manuscripts, articles from newspapers of the period of the journalist and his oeuvre, as well as the decorations he received are also available. Most of the material was directly scanned from the originals published at the end of the nineteenth century and contains magnificent lithographs.

Research was financed by the Heidelberg University Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” and realized in collaboration between the project “Gauging Cultural Asymmetries: Asian Satire and the Search for Identity in the Era of Colonialism and Imperialism” and the Visual Resources Team of the Cluster’s Heidelberg Research Architecture (HRA). Redelivery of the material as IIIF services and portable JSON metadata—which continues to support ongoing research—was accomplished by Data-Futures in 2017. This Invenio repository was generated through the Data Futures hasdai partnership with CERN in 2018. Use of the repository is Attribution Share-Alike so please credit Heidelberg University and Data Futures in any material in which uses data from this site.