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Information warriors
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- Book Synopsis
- The Paris Peace Conference of 1919 redrew the map of the Middle East, yet the region has since endured constant conflict. Military and economic wars have been fought openly, whilst the West and Arab states have quietly controlled public opinion by managing the narratives that validate their actions. Here we meet the hidden information war, from the propaganda coup of the entry of British forces into Jerusalem in 1917 to the campaign that sold the case for regime change in Saddam's Iraq in 2003. As the West has embraced public diplomacy and soft power, the propagandists of Islamic State have developed global reach to greater effect by using a simple message via cutting edge digital output and thriving social media to generate publicity and harvest recruits. In the Trump era of fake news, media manipulation and cyber warfare, the battle to control public opinion in the modern Middle East is one the whole world is watching.
- About The Author
- Vyvyan Kinross has a long career working as a communications and Public Relations advisor in the Middle East. Most recently he was a senior advisor at the Palestinian Authority's Ministry of the Interior, consulting on a major aid development programme, that sought to find ways for the security sector to improve their relationship with the population of the West Bank and Gaza. A PR professional and a former journalist, Vyvyan trained originally as an Arabist and has worked across the Middle East region since the early 1970s. He reported from Iraq on Saddam's war against the Ayatollah's revolutionary Iran and went on to help Afghanistan's new Counter Narcotics Directorate develop a communications strategy as part of the UK's capacity building programme there. At the time of the so called 'Arab Spring', he was based in Abu Dhabi, designing a modern public relations system to improve communication between local government and citizens. Vyvyan serves on the board of the London-based CAABU - the Council for Arab-British Understanding (www.caabu.org) - probably the most active cross-party British NGO working within the UK Parliamentary system to advocate for a British foreign policy in the Middle East, focusing on civil rights and human rights as well as conflict resolution.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781914325236
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Nomad Publishing, (26 September 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 224
- Weight
- 600 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 221 x 146 x 28 mm
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