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Ahmed Qurei

1938 - 2023

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Ahmed Ali Mohammad Qurei (also spelled Qureia or Qurie; Arabic: أحمد علي محمد قريع‎, Aḥmad ʿAlī Muḥammad Qurayʿ; 26 March 1937 – 22 February 2023), also known by his kunya Abu Alaa (Arabic: أبو علاء‎ Abū ʿAláʾ), was a Palestinian politician who served as the second prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority. First appointed to the position in October 2003, he tendered his resignation on 26 January 2006, following the defeat of the Fatah party in the 2006 Palestinian legislative election, and remained in office in a caretaker capacity until 19 February when he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh. During his tenure as prime minister, he also had responsibility for security matters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ahmed Qurei has received more than 258,539 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Ahmed Qurei is the 2,684th most popular politician (up from 7,900th in 2019).

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  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ahmed Qurei ranks 2,684 out of 19,576. Before him are Empress Genmei, Choe Ryong-hae, Ségolène Royal, Palamedes, Gim Yu-sin, and Richard I of Normandy. After him are Zhang Liang, Robert I, Duke of Parma, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Aleksandar Ranković, Rudy Giuliani, and Christopher I of Denmark.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Ahmed Qurei ranks 45. Before him are José Altafini, Donald Knuth, Kenny Rogers, Robert Nozick, Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld, and César Luis Menotti. After him are Jean Giraud, Jiří Menzel, Alpha Condé, Raymond Carver, Ayaz Mutallibov, and Kurt Wüthrich. Among people deceased in 2023, Ahmed Qurei ranks 59. Before him are David McCallum, Miroslav Blažević, Mircea Snegur, Lucile Randon, Dick Fosbury, and Jan Jongbloed. After him are Mark Margolis, Astrud Gilberto, Dubravka Ugrešić, Alain Touraine, Gianluca Vialli, and Harry Markowitz.

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