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This paper attempts to investigate how the press (local or international) represents political conditions in Egypt in 2010, a year before the Egyptian Revolution. Adopting Van Dijk’s CDA methodology and his notion of ideological square, and detecting the technique of lexicalization and the rhetorical techniques of euphemism and dysphemism, a number of articles and editorials are selected from the American New York Times and the Egyptian independent AlMasry AlYoum, and are thus thoroughly analyzed. The findings support that both newspapers stress the existence of deeply- rooted corruption at all levels in Egypt and the absence of real democracy thanks to Mubarak and his dictatorial regime. However, they differ from each other in the way they represent the different aspects of that corruption and call for change. In addition, some of the articles manage to some extent, directly or indirectly, to predict the Egyptian Revolution and this enhances the assumption that the writers’ linguistic choices could have participated to some degree in forming people’s minds towards the ideology of ultimate political change in Egypt
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