Frequencies of Deceit

How Global Propaganda Wars Shaped the Middle East
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-520-40974-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 326 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

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, Soviet, American, and Egyptian radio voices created an audio world characterized by deceit and betrayal. In this important and timely book, Margaret Peacock traces the history of deception and propaganda in Middle Eastern international radio. Peacock makes the compelling argument that this betrayal contributed to the loss of faith in Western and secular state-led political solutions for many in the Arab world, laying the groundwork for the rise of political Islam.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Peacock, Margaret Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Radio
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
List of Abbreviations 

Introduction 
1 • The Rise of a “Radioyazik”: British and Soviet Radio in the Postwar Middle East 
2 • The Resonance Machine Is Born: The Fight for Palestine, the Battle for Israel 
3 • “Imagine, O Arabs!”: Voice of the Arabs and the Rise of Egyptian Radio 
4 • The Power of Peace: Radio Moscow and the Shaping of the Audio Landscape 
5 • The Echo Chamber: The Americans Enter the Fight 
6 • Britain’s Struggle for Air: The Sounds of a Dwindling Empire 
7 • The Eleventh Hour: The Audiosphere Prepares for War 
8 • Cacophany: The Crisis of Suez 
9 • Voices Carry: Language and the Crisis of Truth 
10 • Poisonous Propaganda or Productive Progress to Peace: 1967 and the Collapse of the Audiosphere
Conclusion 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.