Online Maghreb-Arab Social Movements and Facebook:

This study engages with the recent Maghreb-Arab social movements in Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt in light of their use of Facebook. It primarily explores and analyzes the discourse of these online social movements in order to identify and define the constituting thematic ideas and concepts giving meaning to the experiences of these movements. More particularly, this study achieves four basic objectives. First, it lays bare the major themes and concepts motivating the discourse of these online social movements. Second, it accounts for the socio-cultural conditions under which these movements were born. Third, the study defines the major sites of struggle to which these movements try to direct attention. It defines the domains of concern with which these movements are engaged in order to identify the issues of importance which mostly shape the discussion of these movements. Finally, this study also draws lines of comparison among the three concerned social movements so as to define the common aspects which underpin their discourse.