Political argumentative discourse in modern Arabic autobiography

Abstract

    political discourse based on argumentation is an effective theme in modern autobiography, regardless of the biographer's political or social status. No person, no matter how immersed in the external environment or withdrawn into himself, is immune from the consequences and effects of politics, especially in our Arab environment, which, in most of its historical stages, lacks freedom, stability, and authoritarian forms based on justice, equality, and citizenship. If the biographer holds a high government position, he is more deserving of addressing and defending his political views while recording his personal history - his biography - and the same applies if he is an ordinary citizen who finds himself forced to talk about the political issue, whether he is an opponent, a supporter, or persecuted. It is no secret that one of the most obvious motives for writing an autobiography is justification; therefore, political argumentation constituted an effective content in the autobiographical texts that the research addresse.