جمال_خاشقجي# #JamalKhashoggi: Unraveling multilingual Twitter sentiment dynamics in a longitudinal comparative analysis of tweets in Arabic and English

In 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who wrote for the Washington Post, was last seen alive entering Consulate in Istanbul. Confirmed news of his murder ignited heated and polarized public debate on Twitter. We use agenda melding as theoretical lemma argue that Twitter sentiment flourishes within multilingual, ad hoc spheres contributing to an emotional agenda. examined from 2018 2021 by looking at most popular hashtags used both Arabic-and-English language spheres. The daily analysis 3,278,464 tweets revealed languages had predominantly negative sentiment; however, English sphere more extreme their expression. An additional external media URLs found subsample highlighted distinct references discourse, emphasizing East–West divide. Implications global communication are discussed.