The Lion's speech

The political speech of Assad was a main focus in the context of the crisis, then the war in Syria, the world divided over it between a caller for the return of the president and opposing all his speeches, and between supporters, allies, and those working to keep him as a symbol of the axis's victory. This exceptional importance of Assad, his speech, and standing on his constants and the transformations, and the comparison between: what he was like in the years before the war, and what he became in the era of cannons, blood, destruction, and tears, because rarely has the world been divided over a person as much as it was divided over Assad in the post-World War II period, and rarely has the world reached the brink of the Cold War because of a central state as was the case with Syria since the beginning of the second decade of this century. Choosing Assad's speech as the subject of our research stems from our pursuit to know whether a politician at the level of a head of state maintains the constants of his speech or not if he is surprised by a war that imposes a set of ideological and doctrinal changes on him. In our reading of all official speeches and televised interviews that Assad delivered or was interviewed in, we found that the core contentious issues remained an escalating narrative line, and almost did not disappear from any speech or interview, including for example: rejection of the Muslim Brotherhood, or considering the opposition abroad as agents of the West, or emphasizing internal dialogue with all segments of society, or focusing on the fact that Syria is under an international regional conspiracy, or that terrorism is a major plague that must be fought, and that the army is essential in the decisive battle. In the book, there is a description of Assad's speech, its development, and the environmental and internal and external factors that influenced it, along with precise information, some of which is secret, new documents, and it also includes ideas and theoretical and intellectual studies about the speech and its development among Arabs, and about how it is analyzed in Western schools, because without knowledge, we will never understand anything of the truth, but rather it turns into mere "echoes" — some praise and thank, others insult and curse. Such people are among the causes of calamities, seditions, and misleading people.