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1 | 2009-12-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-egypts-football-fundamentalists | In light of the ongoing Egypt-Algeria football controversy, local sports commentators and news outlets have spoken of the need for diehard football fans to support the Egyptian national team and to protect Egyptian spectators. Such calls have grown increasingly strident since the violent acts of hooliganism - variously... |
2 | 2009-12-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/when-all-else-fails | Science is an engine of progress. Perhaps more importantly critical thinking, skepticism and a culture of research and contemplation are the engines of civilization. And so when Hazem Zohny in Science and faith among Egyptians: Compatible? googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3');... |
3 | 2010-12-25 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/19-zamalek-fans-handed-one-year-prison | The Qasr al-Nil Misdemeanor Court on Saturday sentenced 19 Zamalek football club fans to a year in prison, and referred 12 others to a juvenile court. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); 31 Zamalek "Ultras" were questioned on charges of rioting at the Ahly club, causing ... |
4 | 2011-04-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/post-revolutionary-ultras-still-full-fight | The difference between ultras and casual soccer fans is simple but crucial. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); "What separates ultras from normal fans is how radical they are," explains Mohamed Gamal, sportswriter, author of the upcoming "Ultras Handbook" and in 2007 fo... |
5 | 2011-05-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-activists-plan-15-may-march-gaza | In the wake of youth-led uprisings across the Arab world, several international activist groups are calling for a "march of millions" into Gaza. The march is scheduled for 15 May, the 63rd anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel - commonly referred to in Arabic as googletag.cmd.push(function() { googlet... |
6 | 2011-07-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/trouble-zamalek-match-fans-riot-set-seats-fire | Ten Central Security recruits and officers were injured in clashes with football fans on Thursday evening during a match between Zamalek and Wadi Degla at Cairo Stadium that ended in a tie. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); According to Major General Salah al-Sherbiny,... |
7 | 2011-08-10 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/elbaradei-ultras-spread-message-graffiti-campaign-alexandria | A group of Mohamed ElBaradei supporters calling themselves "ultras" have started a campaign in Alexandria supporting him for the presidency and making use of graffiti slogans in poor neighborhoods. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The ultras have sprayed the slogan "T... |
8 | 2011-08-10 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/elbaradeis-supporters-use-street-art-highlight-presidential-bid | Supporters of presidential hopeful Mohamed ElBaradei in Alexandria have decided to use graffiti to support his candidacy. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The group calls itself Baradaawy Ultras, an apparent reference to radical football fans, and is touring streets a... |
9 | 2011-08-11 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/dos-and-donts-pregnancy | "Don't dye your hair, don't wear tight clothes, don't drive, don't leave the house..." are common pieces of advice that pregnant women might hear during their pregnancy. "They are unfounded, and there are even studies proving that these kinds of fears are not rationale," explains the Cairo-based gynecologist, Hussein G... |
10 | 2011-09-07 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/mubarak-trial-updates-tantawi-summoned-testify-court-reconvene-thursday | 6:06 pm: googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The 8th and 9th witnesses will testify Thursday. 5:48 pm: The court acquits the fifth witness, Central Security Forces Captain Mohamed Abdel Hakeem Mohamed, of perjury charges. 5:40 pm: The court has decided to summon Field Ma... |
11 | 2011-09-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/mubarak-trial-updates-adly-implicated-mubaraks-fate-be-determined-sunday | Wrap-up of Thursday's session: googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); On Thursday, the fifth session of Mubarak's trial saw witnesses accuse the former minister of interior of ordering the shooting of protesters. Police Commander Essam Shawky, the eighth witness, told Judge... |
12 | 2011-09-08 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/thursday-papers-anxiety-over-mubaraks-trial-farmers-reject-scaf-celebration | News about the ongoing trial of toppled President Hosni Mubarak, his sons, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, and six of his aides continues to dominate the front pages of most newspapers, with the top story being Judge Ahmed Refaat's decision to summon Egypt's current leaders to testify. googletag.cmd.push(functi... |
13 | 2011-09-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/anti-military-rally-tahrir-swells-tens-thousands-more-march-around-cairo | Around 30,000 protesters gathered in Tahrir Square Friday to protest the ruling military council's performance and their numbers continued to rise into the late afternoon for the demonstration dubbed "Correcting the Path of the Revolution." googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3')... |
14 | 2011-09-09 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/hundreds-football-fans-gather-interior-ministry-chant-against-adly | Hundreds of Ahly and Zamalek football fans marched from Tahrir Square to the Interior Minsitry headquarters during a larger protest Friday to call for police reforms and an end to human rights violations. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Police officers closed the min... |
15 | 2011-09-10 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ahly-fans-referred-trial-following-riots | Egypt's Public Prosecutor decided on Saturday to refer nine Ahly Football Club fans for speedy trials on 14 September, and to refer seven others to the Specialized Child Prosecution due to their youth. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Judicial sources told Al-Masry Al... |
16 | 2011-09-11 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/rights-council-accuses-police-collective-punishment-against-ahly-football-fans | The National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) is to issue a report by its fact-finding committee tasked with investigating the clashes that took place between the police and Ahly Club football fans, who call themselves "the ultras", at a match played last week. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-... |
17 | 2011-09-13 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/riots-and-politics-mutual-salvation | The scenes of violence and street fighting between the police and the Ahli Football Club fan group Ultras Ahlawy outside Cairo Stadium undoubtedly brings into focus the power of riots as a vital tool to continue the revolution and maintain the absence of stability, which is a key inspiration of the revolution. googleta... |
18 | 2011-09-15 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/thursdays-papers-state-paper-runs-special-report-central-security | Details of the trial of former President Hosni Mubarak, former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and others on charges related to killing revolution protesters fill some of today's papers, despite the military council-imposed publishing ban. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3');... |
19 | 2011-10-06 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/hundreds-march-tahrir-square-demand-handover-civilian-rule | Hundreds of protesters, including Ahly Club Ultras, staged a march from Sayyeda Aisha Square to Tahrir Square on Wednesday night, demanding a swift handover to civilian rule, as called for by various political parties and movements. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Th... |
20 | 2011-11-11 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/uncompromising-fate-minas-death | What is so significant about the horrid death of Mina Daniel? What distinguishes him from previous martyrs Khaled Saeed or Sayed Bilal? Shouldn't this strange succession of names reveal something about the recent history of the Egyptian security apparatus and open up the possibility of reforming it to public debate? De... |
21 | 2011-12-16 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/live-update-scaf-says-no-attempt-end-sit-forcibly | 00:30 am: googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Assistant Health Minister Adel al-Adawy says death toll has reached three, while there are some 255 wounded. 10:40 pm: In a statement, SCAF said that the violence at the cabinet sit-in was caused when protesters assaulted a t... |
22 | 2011-12-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/subtext-military-councils-video-evidence | Since October when the army forcibly dispersed a peaceful protest at Maspero, claiming the lives of 27 mostly Coptic protesters, it has become customary for the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to hold a press conference after a bloody attack on protesters with two LCD monitors on each side of the podi... |
23 | 2012-01-04 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypts-forensic-medicine-authority-revolution | Thursday afternoon is typically a slow time in most government offices. But these days, there aren't any slow times for Ihsan Kamil Gorgy, Egypt's chief forensic doctor. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); On a recent Thursday, both Gorgy's landline and mobile phone rung... |
24 | 2012-01-24 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/was-egyptian-revolution-really-non-violent | As attention turns to the anniversary of the 25 January revolution, questions arise about the nature of the Egyptian revolution and what is required for its success. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); The questions are: for a revolution to succeed, can it be completely ... |
25 | 2012-01-27 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-military-sympathizer-throws-sound-bombs-demonstrators | A pro-military demonstrator targeted protesters outside of the Defense Ministry in the Abbasseya neighborhood with sound bombs while they were heading back to Tahrir Square. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Tahrir protesters failed to catch him after he ran away once ... |
26 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/activists-call-escalating-civil-disobedience-force-scaf-exit | As public outrage mounts over violence at a football match Wednesday, two prominent Egyptian activist groups are calling on citizens to engage in acts of civil disobedience to impel the ruling military council to step down. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Both the Ap... |
27 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/activists-politicians-see-more-hooliganism-football-violence | At least 71 are confirmed dead in the worst-ever fan violence following a sporting event in Egypt, after a fight apparently broke out between fans of the home football team Masry and visiting team Ahly in the coastal city of Port Said. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); });... |
28 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/cairo-morgue-families-port-said-stadium-victims-blame-authorities | The bodies of 51 of the 71 people killed at Port Said stadium on Wednesday are now inside the Zeinhom Morgue in Cairo's Sayeda Zeinab neighborhood. Outside the building, the lamentations of mothers whose sons went to cheer at a football match and never came back mix with angry cries against military rule as many hold t... |
29 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/fifa-president-football-rage-not-responsible-port-said-deaths | BRUSSELS - The president of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) said Thursday that football-related rage was not the cause of the bloody events that followed an Egyptian Premier League match in Port Said on Wednesday. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'... |
30 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/funerals-port-said-dead-held-across-egypt | Funerals were held on Thursday across Egypt for victims of the clashes that broke out in Port Said Stadium following a game between the Ahly and Masry teams last night. Over 70 people died and over 300 were injured in the violence. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); In ... |
31 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/hundreds-cairo-protest-after-port-said-football-tragedy | Hundreds have blocked the Nile Corniche in front of the Maspero state television building to protest the violence following a football match Wednesday in Port Said, which left at least 71 football fans dead. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); Riots broke out at the Port... |
32 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/political-forces-push-cabinets-removal | A number of political and activist groups and presidential hopefuls demanded Thursday that the People's Assembly withdraw confidence from the government of interim Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzouri, after violence at a football match Wednesday night left at least 71 dead. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.displa... |
33 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/port-said-violence-was-work-infiltrators-not-ultras-say-locals | PORT SAID - Port Said residents are adamant that the violence at Wednesday's football match here was caused by infiltrators, not hardcore local football fans. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); A handful of supporters of the Masry Football Club, which beat Cairo's leadi... |
34 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/regime-gets-back-port-said | Security officers in plain clothes are reported to have roamed Port Said chasing revolutionaries, accusing them of inciting last night's organized violence in the football stadium, which left more than 70 Ahly Club fans (Ultras) dead and thousands injured. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1... |
35 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-football-fans-target-ruling-generals | Some of the Egyptian football fans who had a front-line role in toppling former President Hosni Mubarak have a new target - the man who replaced him at Egypt's helm, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); "We want your head, you traitor Tantaw... |
36 | 2012-02-02 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/update-clashes-near-interior-ministry-after-marches-against-port-said-massacre-military-rule | Riot police fired tear gas at protesters Thursday evening as thousands of people swarmed streets surrounding the Ministry of Interior to protest what they see as police complicity in the violence in Port Said yesterday that left 74 people dead. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204... |
37 | 2012-02-03 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-protesters-besiege-interior-ministry | Protesters laid siege to Egypt's Interior Ministry on Friday, extending a rally against the military-led government into a second day in a show of anger triggered by the deaths of 74 people in the country's worst football disaster. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); In ... |
38 | 2012-02-03 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/port-said-fans-blame-security-infiltrators-match-violence | PORT SAID - Despite a biting wind the sun shone brightly on Port Said Thursday, and if not for the people out in droves in front of the governorate building and marching around the city, no one would guess that unprecedented violence had occurred here just the day before. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.displ... |
39 | 2012-02-03 | https://www.egyptindependent.com/ultras-politics-fun-confront-tyranny | Wednesday's massacre of Ahly Club fans in Port Said's football stadium was the latest in a tragic crescendo for young Egyptians who continue to clash heavily with Egypt's Central Security Forces. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1488287610204-3'); }); And though the clashes have been contin... |
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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}
}
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