This book explores and problematises the war discourse regarding Egypt's victory in the 1973
War. It traces the process through which this discourse was constructed and reconstructed by
the state throughout the periods of President Anwar Sadat his successor Hosni Mubarak and
afterwards. It uses Critical Discourse Analysis to combine analysis of texts commemorating the
war with a study of the socio-political milieu related to personal authoritarianism and the
state's intricate relations with the army the press and Islamists.
