Asad in Search of Legitimacy: Messages and Rhetoric in the Syrian Press, 1970-2000
"The Syrian regime, ruled by the Ba'th socialist party and headed by presidents from the 'Alawi minority, faces problems of legitimacy vis-a-vis its people, which it tackles through powerful security organizations and the state media." Text, photographs and cartoons are marshalled in support of promoting the consensus accepting the legitimacy of the state. Analyzing the political domestic message of the Syrian press - as well as the quotation of newspaper sources in the original Arabic, and...
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Kedar (Arabic and strategic studies, Bar-Ilan U.) does not attempt an account of events in Syria during the 30-year presidency of Hafiz al-Asad (d. June 2000), nor a psychological profile of him or his son and successor Bashar. Rather he examines the contents of the messages disseminated by the official Syrian information apparatus, and analyzes and interpret them in the general cultural context of the country. His goal is to reveal what the Syrian information services perceived as the weak points of Asad and his regime, by looking at what they tried to cover up or explain away. Quotations are in Arabic with English translation. The study was his 1997 doctoral dissertation for the University of Bar-Ilan. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
1Information, propaganda, and the role of the mass media in Syria12Nation, society, state and president193The Islamic element784History : myths and battles1325The world outside Syria1596Psychological elements2077The Syrian media under Bashar228
