title: Two Novels about the Information War in Yemen on the Eve of the Revolution of 2011
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metadata.value: Suvorov, Mikhail N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-11-26T17:38:12Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-11-26T17:38:12Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-09
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metadata.value: Suvorov M. N. Two Novels about the Information War in Yemen on the Eve of the Revolution of 2011. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2019, vol. 11, issue 3, pp. 298–310.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2019.304
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16661
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metadata.value: Around the mid–1990s, President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s regime in Yemen began to realize the
  rapid decline in its popularity among the citizens. Total corruption, unemployment, unprecedented
  poverty growth, stagnation of all social services — all this turned the lives of thousands
  of Yemenis into daily struggle for survival. In the conditions of Yemeni population’s growing
  discontent, one of the regime’s instruments to keep control over the situation was the state
  media which implemented all means of propaganda to improve the image of the government
  in the eyes of the citizens. At the same time, printed and electronic publications of the opposition
  movements confronted the state media by revealing their lies and explaining to the
  readers the authoritarian and corrupt nature of the ruling regime. This information war which
  lasted until the fall of the regime in 2011 became the main theme of two Yemeni novels: War
  under the Skin (2010) by Aḥmad Zayn (Zein) and Happy Land of Intrigues (2018) by Wajdī al-
  Ahdal. Aḥmad Zayn concentrates on the inner world of his protagonist, a journalist working
  for the regime, and shows how he gradually comes to the understanding of his negative role
  in the information war. Wajdī al-Ahdal’s protagonist, also a journalist working for the regime,
  discovers in his personal story all the methods, techniques, and tactics of this war.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 11; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Arab literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Yemen
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: corrupt media
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: information war
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ahmad Zein
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Wajdi al-Ahdal
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Two Novels about the Information War in Yemen on the Eve of the Revolution of 2011
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metadata.value: Article
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