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Attitudes towards Refugees in Light of the Paris Attacks
Kareem Darwish, Walid Magdy
The Paris attacks prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter. This paper explores the immediate response of English speakers on Twitter towards Middle Eastern re…
Quantifying Public Response towards Islam on Twitter after Paris Attacks
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Norah Abokhodair
The Paris terrorist attacks occurred on November 13, 2015 prompted a massive response on social media including Twitter, with millions of posted tweets in the first few hours after…
Bridging Social Media via Distant Supervision
Walid Magdy, Hassan Sajjad, Tarek El-Ganainy +1
Microblog classification has received a lot of attention in recent years. Different classification tasks have been investigated, most of them focusing on classifying microblogs int…
#FailedRevolutions: Using Twitter to Study the Antecedents of ISIS Support
Walid Magdy, Kareem Darwish, Ingmar Weber
Within a fairly short amount of time, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has managed to put large swaths of land in Syria and Iraq under their control. To many observers, t…