ABSTRACT
In June 2010, the Facebook page “We Are All Khaled Said” came as a reaction to the murder and torture of a citizen by police officers, invoking waves of protests throughout Egypt in 2011. Nearly a decade since the Egyptian Revolution, the relationship between virtual activism, which emerged in the beginning of the year 2000, and citizenship education has not received enough scholarly attention. The author conducts a qualitative analysis of the content of the aforementioned Facebook page between the creation of the page (June 2010) and the ousting of Mubarak (February 2011). The chapter is guided by questions such as how did social media networks create a new public sphere in the Egyptian society, and how did social media serve as an informal space of educating and practicing citizenship at the revolutionary moment of 2011? It presents an important case on how social media offers a space of practicing citizenship and resistance, which—as we see in the case of Egypt—helped social non-movements take the lead in the struggle against the state.
