metadata
dataset:
- name: UltrasTexts_EgyptianIndependent
tags:
- egypt-independent
- ultras
- football-fandom
- text-corpus
- web-scraping
- sports-media
license: mit
Texts about Ultras from the Egyptian Independent, 2009-2020
A curated corpus of Egypt Independent articles on “Ultras” football fan groups, with publication dates, URLs, and full‑text content.
Dataset Summary
- Source: Egypt Independent search results for the term “ultras+” (39 pages of results, 9 articles per page).
- Period Covered: Articles published between 2009 and 2020.
- Total Records: 378 raw articles were scraped; after filtering out entries with fewer than 20 characters of main text or failed parses.
Files
EgyptIndependentUltrasTexts.csv
A csv file with the following columns:publication_date— Date the article was published (YYYY‑MM‑DD).url— Full URL of the original Egypt Independent article.text— UTF‑8 text extracted from the article’s main content container.
Data Fields
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| publication_date | Date | Publication date. |
| url | string | "https://www.egyptindependent.com/" + article specific URL |
| text | string | Main body text, whitespace‑collapsed, non‑ASCII characters replaced. |
Paper Reference
Connor T. Jerzak. Football fandom in Egypt. Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East, pages 196-207, Oxfordshire, UK, 2022. Routledge. Danyel Reiche and Paul Brannagan (eds.) [PDF] | [BibTeX]
@inproceedings{jerzak2022football,
title={Football fandom in Egypt},
author={Jerzak, Connor T.},
booktitle={Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East},
year={2022},
volume={},
pages={196-207},
publisher={Routledge},
address={Oxfordshire, UK}
}