Iraq: la battaglia della lingua
Journal title FUTURIBILI
Author/s Michele Farina
Publishing Year 2009 Issue 2008/2-3 Language Italian
Pages 5 P. 129-133 File size 276 KB
DOI 10.3280/FU2008-002013
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Iraq - the language battle - Lost in translation in Baghdad: five years of conflict seen as a language conflict, or a missed encounter. A poor grasp of Arabic - often an inability or refusal to utter the even the simplest greeting - and the scarcity of decent interpreters in the American forces have proved to be a significant and long-neglected factor in the widening divide between the invader-liberators and the local population. And consequently in the difficulty in winning over hearts and minds at the expense of the insurgents. This is a study of the language factor in the resolution, or the festering, of asymmetrical wars past and present.
Michele Farina, Iraq: la battaglia della lingua in "FUTURIBILI" 2-3/2008, pp 129-133, DOI: 10.3280/FU2008-002013