Asad in Search of Legitimacy: Message & Rhetoric in the Syrian Press Under Hafiz & Bashar - Softcover

"...an outstandingly rich study of the way the Syrian Ba'th regime under Hafiz al-Asad used the Syrian media and other official information services in his search for legitimacy... ...should become a model for the analytic and systematic treatment of official rhetoric and regime-media/public relations in authoritarian regimes." -- Eyal Zisser, Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University. "...a unique documentation and analysis of the Middle East as seen through the eyes of the Syrian media. ...successfully conveys a true and panoramic picture of Arabian dictatorship. Dictatorship is expertly studied... an indispensable documentary and commentary on Modern Middle Eastern history." -- Shaker Nabulsi, Head of the Arab-American Academic Association, Denver, Colorado.

Features quotations from newspaper sources in their original Arabic and their English translation; Looks at the new "message" period of Bashar Asad; Detailed and revealing analysis of the domestic political message of the Syrian press, and the methods used to promote that message; A well researched critique into the machinations of the Syrian state.