Arab Media Coverage of Russian Geonarratives

2,890 coded articles from various Arab media sources with URL links. It examines the perception of Russian geonarratives like multipolarity and Eurasianism in the Arab world, analyzing their space-framing assumptions and intersections with local narratives such as Pan-Arabism.

Use Cases

• Analyze the frequency and framing of the 'multipolarity' geonarrative across different Arab media sources.
• Examine co-occurrence patterns between 'Eurasianism' and local Arab geonarratives like 'Pan-Islamism' or 'Greater Syria'.
• Map the distribution of infrastructure-building references as a space-making process within the 2,890 articles.
• Conduct network analysis on the 'URL links' to study media source interconnectivity and information flow.
• Investigate the representation of 'Arab agency' across the coded articles to identify dominant regional or national reference points.

Strengths

• Contains 2,890 coded articles, providing a substantial textual corpus for analysis.
• Focuses on a specific geopolitical intersection: Russian narratives in Arab media.
• Includes URL links for source verification and potential web scraping of full articles.

Limitations

• The specific coding schema, column names, and variables are not detailed, limiting reproducibility.
• Sample size of 2,890 articles may not be representative of all Arab media coverage on the topic.
• Potential language barriers exist as the original Arabic media content is coded, but the dataset language is unspecified.

Provenance

Source

Harvard Dataverse, authored by Dima Abu Alkheir.

Collection Method

Content analysis and coding of articles from various Arab media sources.

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-02-18.

Geography

Focus on the Arab world and Russian geopolitical narratives.