Salem Azzam

Preserving twentieth-century Islamic history.

Salem Azzam was born in Cairo, Egypt, on the 8th of July, 1924. He established the ICE – Islamic Council of Europe, whose aim was to support the causes of the Muslim Ummah.

Net Ummah partnered with the family of Salem Azzam to archive all materials and build a website to honour his legacy.

Our task was fivefold:

• Organising large amounts of historic information.
• Photo restoration.
• Video and Audio digitisation, restoration, optimisation and editing.
• Multi-language content.
• Animated timeline infographics.

The Result:

Preserving twentieth-century Islamic history.

Challenge –

Organising large amounts of historic information.

The numerous audio recordings, photos and publications had to organised in a structured way.

Old Photo Restoration.

The original supplied photos had scratches and other blemishes e.g. vertical streaks from old scans.

Photoshop was used to remove these imperfections via the Spot healing, Gaussian blur and FFT Filter tools.

Audio Restoration.

The original supplied audio files were low in volume, contained extended pauses and lots of background noise.

Adobe Premiere Pro and Audition was used to improve the audio quality.

Video & Audio Digitisation.

Original VHS video tapes and cassette audio tapes were digitised and optimised.

Examples of digitised work included:

• Human Rights Conference, Paris, 1983
• Islam in Africa Conference, 1989
• Conquest & Youth Day Conference, Izmir, Turkey 1991

Document Digitisation.

Thousands of documents, photo albums and newspapers were digitised.

Examples of digitised work included:

• New Horizon newspaper, London, 1977
• Letters to world leaders including letters to President Ronald Reagon – USA, Imam Ayatullah Khomeini – Iran and Colonel Muammer al Qadhafi of Libya.
• Islamic Council press releases from 1988 – 1995

Timeline and other infographics.

Website.

The website in English and Arabic will be available soon insh’Allah.

Brand Attributes –

History. Serious. Heritage.