This paper will argue that the Arab uprisings have generated conflicting emotional perceptions that oscillate between nashwa (rupture), triggered by the promises of the revolution, and ihbat (frustration), caused by the turn the events have taken in some countries in the region. Using stories from Moroccan print media, the paper traces the discursive rendering of nashwa and ihbat to competing ideological projects and outlines the framing mechanisms used in the construction of these emotional perceptions. Eventually, the point is made that the Arab uprisings are better read as an event, in Alain Badiou’s philosophical sense, in that their resonances continue to generate new possibilities, as attested by the peaceful democratic transition in progress in Tunisia.