By Sherif Makkawy – ACADEMIA – 18 April 2019
This paper will examine two newspaper articles that highlight chemical attack in Syria on April 4, 2017, by using Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The selected articles are:
1. “Syria Chemical Weapons Attack Toll Rises to 70 as Russian Narrative is Dismissed” from The Guardian (Appendix 1);
2. “Worst Chemical Attack in Years in Syria; U.S. Blames Assad” from The New York Times (Appendix 2).