Pro-government rally in Damascus with portraits of Bashar al-Assad and of two clerics, Tasnim photograph (Damascus, 15 April 2018)
Close crowd shot at a street rally: a framed colour portrait of a man in a dark suit and tie is held up beside red-white-black Syrian flags with two green stars, a smaller framed portrait of two bearded, turbaned clerics, and a large banner printed with a man in sunglasses and uniform. The tells are leader portraits carried as the rally's main props, and a second leader pairing, the clerics' portrait, placed beside them to signal an alliance.
Propaganda techniques used in this photograph
- Date
- April 15, 2018
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Pro-government demonstrators in Damascus (organiser not named); photograph by Fathi Nizam for Tasnim News Agency
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Themes, 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
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Elections and party politics
- Event
- Syrian Civil War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (from Tasnim News Agency), retrieved October 12, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (Tasnim News Agency, via Commons file page)
Fathi Nizam / Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Checked for printed text: none found
No printed or legible text on this object.
Portraits and flags only; no lettering is legible.
