During the course of the Egyptian civil movement in 2011, excessive suppression of the protesters caused a great deal of humanitarian concerns across the world. Egyptian protesters were supported not only in the Arabic-speaking world, but also throughout the English speaking world. The Twittersphere¹ became a valuable arena for individuals to communicate amongst each other regarding important social movement issues. This paper is a study of the communication on Twitterverse consisting of both English and Arabic tweets and the sentiments expressed therein during the Egyptian protest movement. We focus on the research questions: what sentiments of Tweeters relate to signals of protest communication?, and how do protest related tweets in two languages in the Twitter sphere, that are a proxy of two different and important cultural groups, compare with each other? In order to understand the protest communications in Twittersphere, we examine a dual pathways model that relates to emotional and goal related sentiments. We apply this model to examine the online protest in Egypt. Our findings reveal the emotions and goal related sentiments that are fundamental for intention to protest across the two languages. We find that anger, fear, pride and hope were the prime sentiments regarding intention to or support of protest, regardless of language.

在2011年埃及民间运动的过程中，对示威者的过度镇压在世界范围内引起了许多人道主义关注。埃及抗议者不仅在说阿拉伯语的世界中得到支持，而且在整个说英语的世界中得到支持。Twittersphere ¹成为个人就重要的社会运动问题相互交流的宝贵舞台。本文是对Twitterverse上的交流的研究，该交流包括英语和阿拉伯语推文以及埃及抗议运动中表达的观点。我们将重点放在研究问题上：高音扬声器的哪些情感与抗议交流的信号有关？在Twitter领域中，两种不同且重要的文化群体的代表，与抗议相关的推文如何用两种语言相互比较？为了理解Twittersphere中的抗议交流，我们研究了与情感和目标相关的情感相关的双重途径模型。我们应用此模型来研究埃及的在线抗议活动。我们的发现揭示了情绪和与目标相关的情绪，这是意图在两种语言之间进行抗议的基础。我们发现，无论使用何种语言，愤怒，恐惧，骄傲和希望都是意图或支持抗议的主要情绪。