Frequencies of Deceit
How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East
$45.60
- Paperback
326 pages
- Release Date
14 April 2025
Summary
On June 8, 1967, Egypt’s most famous radio broadcaster, Ahmed Said, reported that Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian forces had defeated the Israeli army in the Sinai, had hobbled their British and US allies, and were liberating Palestine. It was a lie.
For the rest of his life, populations in the Middle East vilified Said for his duplicity. However, the truth was that, by 1967, all the world’s major broadcasters to the Middle East were dissimulating on the air. For two decades, British,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520409743 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520409744 |
| Author: | Margaret Elizabeth Peacock |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 326 |
| Release Date: | 14 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 152mm x 229mm |
Critics Review
“Exceptionally well written, impressively informative, and thoroughly ‘reader friendly’ in organization and presentation. A substantial and original work of meticulous and detailed scholarship.” * Midwest Book Review *
“This is not just a book about the Middle East. It is a deep investigation into how truths are created, distributed, and erased. Margaret Peacock compels the reader to reconsider the sources of their information, to look beyond what was said and into how — and why — it was transmitted, or how much of what we think we know is fact and how much is just signal?”
* Pianeta Libri news *“This book will undoubtedly appeal to students and researchers of Middle Eastern history and the history of radio.”
Margaret Elizabeth Peacock
Margaret Peacock is Professor of History at the University of Alabama. She is author of Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War and coauthor of A Deeper Sickness: Journal of America in the Pandemic Year.
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