The Political Discourse of the Arab Revolution: The Case of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria

Kesseiri, Radia

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“…Bashar Al-Assad's "fake steps" to implement promises in his discourses and manifestations of their failure The authoritarian regime under Bashar Al-Assad's rule responded to protests and the Syrian revolution after 2011, not only with actions but also with deliberate language choices through political discourses and speeches that revealed the complex attitudes toward protestors, nationalism, democracy, opposition, war on terror, economic and political reforms and unity between opposition movements as an attempt to justify Assad's own presence, actions and policies during a period of intense turmoil. Focusing on public speeches delivered by Bashar, paying particular attention to specific themes and the use of dialectal Arabic as strategic attempts to reach the masses through vernacular language (Kesseiri, 2015), as follows:…”

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Political discourse of President Bashar Al-Assad after the Syrian revolution (analytical vision)

Gaber

2020

JHASS

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Purpose There is no doubt that the political speech of the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad is of exceptional importance in understanding the developments of the war in Syria, and clarifies the position of all parties involved in the war, whether local, regional or international. Accordingly, and based on the dismantling of political discourse, the identification of its core, as well as its variables and major themes of this discourse, this study aims to understand the levels of complexity, paths and the fate of the war in Syria that certainly does not come free of charge, the hardest of which is the human cost whether for the victims or the displaced persons. Design/methodology/approach After a careful study of all the resilient factors in the literature review to categorize the primary data based on Assad’s discourses in the media, through a “qualitative research study” of his “interviews and discourses,” it is found that the Assad’s rhetoric is highly relevant to his tenacious presidency. The research reveals the themes that dominated Assad’s interview responses and speeches and his strategy of framing the revolution as a foreign insurgency against his government. In fact, Assad delegitimizes any semblance of the uprisings as a “pro-democracy movement” or “revolution,” denying the presence of a rebellion against his government. Findings By the analysis the study found out that Bashar Al-Assad continued to focus on certain reasons and issues that led to the crisis and the continuation of the war, such as the Muslim Brotherhood’s involvement, considering the Syrian opposition abroad as agents of Western countries, Syria is subject to a regional and international conspiracy, terrorism is a major scourge that must be fought and that the army is essential in resolving the battles taking place there. Likewise, emphasizing the internal dialogue with all stakeholders and involved parties is the way to solve the crisis.The Syrian President’s speeches do not focus much on the accusations against his regime from the opposition or the international parties involved in the conflict. Originality/value Assad’s resiliency has made him a distinct leader in the region. This paper analyzes the factors contributing to Assad’s resiliency. The literature review consists of the existing theories on authoritarian persistence and Assad’s power base in particular. The literature review discusses the factors that helped Assad adopts his resiliency strategies to the conflict environment. The research focuses on how Assad used the media as a platform for displaying his own manipulative narrative of the conflict. It concludes that Assad’s use of the media as his propaganda tool legitimized his rule, making it highly relevant to his persistence.

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Political discourse of President Bashar Al-Assad after the Syrian revolution (analytical vision)

Gaber

2020

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“…Another line of research analyzed the political speeches of the former presidents of Tunisia, Egypt and Lybia and Syria during the Arab Spring such as the themes and structures of the last three speeches by President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and the strategies used in addressing the public unrest during the Arab Spring and the discourse of desperation (Lahlali, 2011); a critical discourse analysis of the last three political speeches of the ousted president of Tunisia (Maalej, 2012); the political discourse of Mubarak, Qaddafi, Ben Ali, and Assad of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria (Kesseiri, 2015); a discourse analysis of the political speeches of the ousted Arab Presidents during the Arab Spring Revolution using Halliday and Hasan's framework of cohesion (Al-Majali, 2015); the rhetorical features of the ousted Arab presidents' speeches (Jarrah, 2018); a discourse analysis of attitude in Mubarak's speeches during the Arab Spring (Alkahtani, 2020); the discursive strategies used in selected speeches by former Egyptian President, Mubarak, and the former Lebanese Prime Minister, Hariri (Adel, 2020).…”

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Emerging Political Expressions in Arab Spring for Translation Media with Implications Pedagogy

Al-Jarf¹

2022

IJLLT

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A sample of political expressions that have been common in Arab media since the Arab Spring in 2011 was collected from TV newscasts, online news websites and social media pages. Analysis of their structure, denotative and connotative meanings revealed the following features: (i) Use of lexical hybrids (اخوانجي- الدم قراطية – سني ستان - الحقيقة ليكس- عسكريتاريا; (ii) revival of ancient Islamic expressionsأمير المؤمنين - غزوة الموصل) ); (iii) use of blends (صهيوأمريكية); (iv) few borrowings (BRICS); (v) use of new acronyms (ISIS) with verbs, nouns and agents derived from them (دواعش استدعاش); and (vi) phonological and lexical substitutions in names of political and religious personalities that the users oppose (Kerdogan for Erdogan;حزب اللات for Hezbollah). Semantically, Arab Spring political terms refer to types of governments, places (towns), minority groups, religious sects, names of militia groups, weapons and military tactics, revolution squares that were not widely used before. They are also characterized by their non-literal use, i.e., use of loaded expressions, dysphemisms, and slurs that express disparagement, derogation, criticism, and disrespect towards those they oppose and towards the social and political situation as inالخرفان المتأسلمين - الفئة الضالة – شبيحة – الفلول - المخلوع. Translation and interpreting instructors need to integrate emerging political terms commonly used in the media in political and media translation courses. students majoring in translation and interpreting need to be familiar with new political terms and should be able to translate them from Arabic to English and vice versa. Students need to keep their own lists of new terms used in the media together with their equivalents in English or Arabic. They need to use Google Translate with caution as Google Translate usually gives incorrect word order in compounds. It also gives equivalents that do not match source terms in part of speech and in the type of derivative.

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“…linguistiques passent graduellement de la fuṣḥā à la ʿāmmiyya et ne sont pas délimitables de façon nette(Lentin 1997(Lentin , 2004, peut être un choix, volontaire ou inconscient, du locuteur. Dans le premier cas, bien que le destinataire du monologue demeure le peuple, lorsque l'occasion et les objectifs du discours changent, le chef d'État opte pour un registre différent tendant tantôt vers le haut, tantôt vers le bas du continuum linguistique, en fonction de la stratégie discursive retenue(Maalej 2012, Kesseiri 2015. L'analyse de quelques extraits d'un monologue du président El-Sebsī fera l'objet de cette étude.…”

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Référents des marques de personne et deixis sociale et émotionnelle en arabe dialectal libanais

Germanos¹

2019

Studies on Arabic Dialectology and Sociolinguistics

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This volume contains over fifty articles related to various fields of modern Arabic dialectology.All the articles are revised and enhanced versions of papers read on the 12 th Conference of the Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AIDA) held in Marseille in June 2017. Since its first conference in Paris in 1993, AIDA members gather every two years in different country. The collection of the AIDA proceedings offer an updated insight of the development of the field.During the past few decadesthe the study of Arabic dialects has become an important branch of research covering a wide range of subjects from phonological analyses, morphosyntax, semantics to pragmatics, sociolinguistics, folk linguistics, studies on literacy and writings, cultural and artistic practices, etc. As many articles of this volume illustrate, the study of Arabic dialects explores different aspects of the languages and cultures of the contemporary Arab world. A remarkable feature is the growing and constant participation of young scholars from all around the globe.

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The Political Discourse of the Arab Revolution: The Case of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, and Syria

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Political discourse of President Bashar Al-Assad after the Syrian revolution (analytical vision)

Political discourse of President Bashar Al-Assad after the Syrian revolution (analytical vision)

Emerging Political Expressions in Arab Spring for Translation Media with Implications Pedagogy

Référents des marques de personne et deixis sociale et émotionnelle en arabe dialectal libanais

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