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Abstract
This study attempts to investigate how the press (local or international) represents political conditions in Egypt in 2010, a year before the Egyptian Revolution. Adopting van Dijk’s CDA methodology and his notion of ideological square, a number of articles and editorials are selected from the American New York Times and the Egyptian independent AlMasry AlYoum, and are thus thoroughly analyzed. This particular period of time (from February to May 2010) was full of many pivotal political events that helped to pave the way to the outbreak of the Egyptian Revolution on the 25th of January 2011.
Detecting the technique of lexicalization and the rhetorical techniques of euphemism and dysphemism, the selected corpus is thoroughly investigated in an attempt to reach a final result concerning whether the different articles and editorials are ideologically biased or neutral. In other words, the study investigates the role the different newspapers play in controlling the readers’ minds and directing them to accept certain ideological attitudes and assumptions concerning political degradation in Egypt.