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Al Jazeera Arabic News Articles Dataset A dataset of 9,758 Arabic news articles scraped from Al Jazeera Arabic (aljazeera.net), covering the period from September 30, 2025 to March 14, 2026. Dataset Description Each record contains the full article text, title, publication date, topic labels, and optional image metadata. The articles span 183 unique topic tags across politics, sports, economy, religion, and more. Supported Tasks Text Classification… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Skiittoo/aljazeera-news-arabic.

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Al Jazeera Arabic News Articles Dataset

A dataset of 9,758 Arabic news articles scraped from Al Jazeera Arabic (aljazeera.net), covering the period from September 30, 2025 to March 14, 2026.

Dataset Description

Each record contains the full article text, title, publication date, topic labels, and optional image metadata. The articles span 183 unique topic tags across politics, sports, economy, religion, and more.

Supported Tasks

  • —Text Classification / Topic Labeling -- Multi-label classification using the topics field.
  • —Abstractive / Extractive Summarization -- Long-form Arabic article summarization.
  • —Language Modeling -- Pre-training or fine-tuning Arabic language models on modern journalistic text.
  • —Named Entity Recognition -- Extracting entities from real-world Arabic news text.
  • —Information Retrieval -- Building Arabic news search and retrieval systems.

Dataset Structure

Fields

FieldTypeDescription
idstringUnique article identifier from the source
article_urlstringOriginal article URL on aljazeera.net
article_titlestringArticle headline
article_text_contentstringFull article body text (paragraphs joined by newlines)
article_image`string \null`URL of the featured image, if available
datestringPublication timestamp in ISO 8601 format
topicslist[string]Topic/category tags assigned to the article
image_caption`string \null`Caption of the featured image, if available

Example

json
{
  "id": "8956332",
  "article_url": "https://www.aljazeera.net/religion/2026/3/14/...",
  "article_title": "مُطلة على \"الأقصى\" المغلق.. معلمة مقدسية تجيز طالبة من البحرين",
  "article_text_content": "من مكان يُطل على المسجد الأقصى المبارك المغلق...",
  "article_image": "https://www.aljazeera.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/...",
  "date": "2026-03-14T18:15:30",
  "topics": ["دين", "رمضان 2026", "فلسطين"],
  "image_caption": "المعلمة هنادي الحلواني على مَطلة الأقصى... (الجزيرة)"
}

Dataset Statistics

StatisticValue
Total articles9,758
Date range2025-09-30 to 2026-03-14
Unique topics183
Articles with image6,796 (69.6%)
Articles with image caption6,772 (69.4%)
Avg. text length~2,758 characters
Max text length~50,247 characters

Top 15 Topics

TopicCount
أخبار5,059
فلسطين2,663
سياسة1,526
سوريا1,052
السودان615
رياضة591
اقتصاد531
لبنان458
مصر458
قطر401
المغرب371
إسرائيل338
صحافة315
العراق300
اليمن299