Pro-government wall painting and Bashar al-Assad portrait poster, 2014 presidential election campaign (Damascus, May 2014)
A wall painted with a zig-zag pattern in the red, white and black of the Syrian flag, with green stars, carries a printed poster of a smiling man in a dark suit and a woman beside him; a young woman in jeans walks past. Arabic slogans are painted above and below. The tell is the flag pattern turned into wall decoration around the leader's portrait, with a slogan tying the country to its flag.
Propaganda techniques used in this sign or banner
- 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
- Signs and banners
- 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.
Text on the object
Original (Arabic) · read from the image, not independently checked
شباب سما الوطن بلدنا أحلى بعلمنا [illegible: text on the portrait poster]
Youth of Sama al-Watan [as printed; "sama" can also mean "sky"] Our country is lovelier with our flag [illegible]
Read from a 500-pixel image; the heading and the lower slogan are legible, the small print on the portrait poster is not.
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