An edition of Saddam's word (1998)

Saddam's Word

Political Discourse in Iraq (Studies in Middle Eastern History)

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An edition of Saddam's word (1998)

Saddam's Word

Political Discourse in Iraq (Studies in Middle Eastern History)

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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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Cover of: Saddam's Word
Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq
2008, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Saddam's Word
Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq (Studies in Middle Eastern History)
December 7, 2001, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford University Press
in English
Cover of: Saddam's Word
Saddam's Word: Political Discourse in Iraq
1998, Ebsco Publishing
in English
Cover of: Saddam's Word
Cover of: Saddam's word
Saddam's word: political discourse in Iraq
1998, Oxford University Press
in English

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First Sentence

"Revolutionism lies at the center of modern Iraqi political life."

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Open Library
OL7390047M
Internet Archive
saddamswordpolit00beng
ISBN 10
0195151852
ISBN 13
9780195151855
OCLC/WorldCat
48416900
Library Thing
2053438
Goodreads
657780

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Revolutionism lies at the center of modern Iraqi political life.
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