Sectarian language and perception of the “Other” after the Arab Spring

This study explores how sectarian language prevalent on Arabic media shapes common Arab people's perceptions of sects such as Sunni, Shiites, and others. A sample expressions was collected from social media, print TV channels. students faculty surveyed. Sectarian analysed according to the components perception (perceiver, target, situation), factors that affect each, amplification attenuation risk framework. used by students, is characterized contempt, hostility, hatred, intolerance sect(s) they disapprove constitute political ideological threats. Many Sunnis are afraid Shiite tide Crescent. Hezbollah, Houthis, Muslim Brothers considered “terrorists” “militias”.