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--- |
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dataset: |
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- name: UltrasTexts_EgyptianIndependent |
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tags: |
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- egypt-independent |
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- ultras |
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- football-fandom |
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- text-corpus |
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- web-scraping |
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- sports-media |
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license: mit |
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--- |
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# Texts about Ultras from the Egyptian Independent, 2009-2020 |
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A curated corpus of Egypt Independent articles on “Ultras” football fan groups, with publication dates, URLs, and full‑text content. |
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## Dataset Summary |
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- **Source**: Egypt Independent search results for the term “ultras+” (39 pages of results, 9 articles per page). |
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- **Period Covered**: Articles published between 2009 and 2020. |
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- **Total Records**: 378 raw articles were scraped; after filtering out entries with fewer than 20 characters of main text or failed parses. |
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## Files |
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- **`EgyptIndependentUltrasTexts.csv`** |
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A csv file with the following columns: |
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- `publication_date` — Date the article was published (YYYY‑MM‑DD). |
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- `url` — Full URL of the original Egypt Independent article. |
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- `text` — UTF‑8 text extracted from the article’s main content container. |
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## Data Fields |
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| Column | Type | Description | |
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|--------------------|---------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |
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| publication_date | Date | Publication date. | |
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| url | string | `"https://www.egyptindependent.com/"` + article specific URL | |
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| text | string | Main body text, whitespace‑collapsed, non‑ASCII characters replaced. | |
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## Paper Reference |
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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.) |
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[[PDF]](https://connorjerzak.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Jerzak_FootballFandomInEgypt.pdf) | [[BibTeX]](https://connorjerzak.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/FandomBib.txt) |
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``` |
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@inproceedings{jerzak2022football, |
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title={Football fandom in Egypt}, |
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author={Jerzak, Connor T.}, |
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booktitle={Routledge Handbook of Sport in the Middle East}, |
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year={2022}, |
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volume={}, |
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pages={196-207}, |
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publisher={Routledge}, |
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address={Oxfordshire, UK} |
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} |
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``` |
