This study conducts a critical comparative analysis of Egyptian presidential
discourse on the recurrent Gaza wars across three political eras represented by
Hosni Mubarak, Mohamed Morsi, and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. It starts from the
premise that presidential discourse does not merely announce positions or describe

events, but deploys linguistic, semantic, and ideological mechanisms to reconstruct
key concepts, represent actors, and define Egypt’s regional role in managing the
Palestinian–Israeli conflict. The research adopts a qualitative comparative
analytical design and a descriptive–analytical method to examine a purposive
sample of official presidential speeches directly related to the Gaza wars of
2008–2009, 2012, and 2023. An integrated analytical framework combines Critical
Discourse Analysis, Van Dijk’s ideological square, Framing Theory, and the
pragmatic perspective of speech acts, enabling the analysis of linguistic and
semantic features, actor representation, dominant frames, and the pragmatic
functions of discourse in crisis management. Findings show that Egyptian
presidential discourse consistently emphasizes Egypt’s central role and national
security boundaries, while varying across presidencies in the directness of
describing aggression, the salience of concepts such as resistance, occupation, and
international legitimacy, and the distribution of responsibility among actors. The
study concludes that transformations in discourse are linked to broader shifts in
Egypt’s domestic political environment and regional positioning, and that
presidential discourse functions as a tool for managing conflict and regulating the
semantic field available to public opinion, while calling for stronger human-rights-
based language and further comparative studies of Arab presidential discourse in
conflict contexts.

Title

مجلة جيل الدراسات للعلاقات الدولية

Publisher

مجلة عراقية

Publisher Country

Jordan

Publication Type

Prtinted only

Volume

39

Year

--

Pages

65