Assad portraits on a traffic police motorcycle and shop windows, 2014 presidential election campaign (Damascus, May 2014)
A uniformed traffic policeman in a white shirt and helmet stands beside a white Suzuki police motorcycle on a city street. A portrait of a man in a dark suit is attached to the motorcycle's windscreen, and further portraits and flags fill the shop windows and facade behind him. The tell is the same face repeated on a state vehicle, in shop windows and on the building front, so that the portrait is present at every point of the street scene.
Propaganda techniques used in this photograph
- Date
- May 2014
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Pro-government campaign for Bashar al-Assad (issuer not named in the source)
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Syria
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Ba Athist Syria
- Leader
- Bashar al Assad
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Elections and party politics
- Event
- Syrian Civil War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (via Commons)
Hosein Zohrevand, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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