In a Middle Eastern context where the Sunni-Shia conflict is becoming more and more obvious, we ask ourselves if the political communications and electoral speeches of the Future Movement and of Hezbollah do reflect the sectarian division and the Sunni-Shia conflict in Lebanon. This thesis on “political communication and confessionalism in Lebanon: the 2009 parliamentary elections” proposes theoretical concepts of political communication, an overview of the Lebanese context between the elections of 2005 and 2009 and a study of the Sunni-Shia conflict through the discourse analysis of the leaders of both parties each considered representing a community in its majority.The qualitative and quantitative discourse analysis, divided into four categories, namely: the campaigns‟ launching study, the crises study, the diachronic study and the elections closing study, based on several selection criteria such as the date, context, nature and the leader who is delivering the speech, aims to identify the communication elements that would reflect sectarian tensions and an eventual Sunni-Shia conflict that geopolitical analysis tend to confirm.
