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Born in Cairo, Kharita™ is a specialty print store dedicated to collecting and producing high quality vintage map prints, focusing mainly on maps in the MENA region. Kharita™ was founded on a mutual passion for history, heritage and cartography.

وُلدت خريطة في القاهرة، وهي متجر متخصص في الطباعة مكرّس لجمع وإنتاج مطبوعات خرائط قديمة عالية الجودة، مع التركيز بشكل أساسي على الخرائط في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال إفريقيا. تأسست خريطة™ بناءً على شغف مشترك بالتاريخ والتراث ورسم الخرائط.

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Tourist Map of Japan 1950

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Map of Arab League States 1960

Map of Arab League States 1960

In Cairo, on March 22, 1945, the six already sovereign Arab states (Egypt, Syria, Transjordan (later Jordan), Lebanon and Saudi Arabia) formed the Arab League.

At the time the leader of the Arab World was Egypt’s ultra-charismatic, Pan-Arabist, Soviet-allied President, Gamal Abdel Nasser. In this context, This Kharita™ is created. It is a powerful propaganda work, showcasing Iraq’s supposedly leading role within the Arab World. Published in Baghdad at the beginning of the 1960s, the map was commissioned by Abd al-Karim Qasim (1914 – 1963), the Prime Minister of Iraq who seemed to challenge Nasser’s for his superiority over the Arab World. The map embraces the entire Arab World from Morocco to Oman, and is augmented by a detailed plan of Baghdad bearing a portrait of Qasim, while the flags of the 15 Arab entities adorn the side panels.

This map is considered to be extremely rare, possibly the last remaining, as it would have been intentionally destroyed by the Ba’athist regime that ruled Iraq from 1963 to 2003 that would not have looked favorably upon any document that glorified Qasim.

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