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This is the first serious attempt to understand modern Iraq through a close examination of the political discourse used by the Bath regime and its leader, Saddam Hussein. Drawing from newspaper articles and official publications, as well as Hussein's public statements, speeches, and writing, Saddam's Word demonstrates how the regime's propaganda defines the range of acceptable public discussion and manipulates history in an attempt to unify diverse and competing ethnic and religious groups.
The revival and rewriting of Iraqi and Islamic myth, along with the construction of viable contemporary myths in today's language, are key instruments in the regime's credibility. Its 29-year hold on Iraqi power - unbroken through war, economic disaster, and ethnic strife - can be largely attributed to the subjugation of the media and public discourse to its own ends.
Saddam's Word will be of much interest to students and scholars of the contemporary Middle East, to observers of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and to those interested in how a regime maintains power by controlling public discourse.
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Discourse analysis, Government and the press, Mass media policy, Political aspects, Political aspects of Discourse analysis, Politics and government, Political Process, Aspect politique, General, Medias, Politique et gouvernement, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Politique gouvernementale, Analyse du discours, Etat et presse, Iraq, politics and government, Hussein, saddam, 1937-2006, Mass media, middle east, Political oratoryPeople
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Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq
2008, Oxford University Press
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Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq (Studies in Middle Eastern History)
December 7, 2001, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press
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0195151852 9780195151855
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Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq
1998, Ebsco Publishing
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0195354184 9780195354188
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Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq, the. Studies in Middle Eastern History
1998, Oxford University Press
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1280454032 9781280454035
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Saddam's word: political discourse in Iraq
1998, Oxford University Press
in English
0195114396 9780195114393
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Includes bibliographical references (p.249-258) and index.
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