WRITER

Emile Habibi

1922 - 1996

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Emile Shukri Habibi (Arabic: إميل حبيبي, Hebrew: אמיל חביבי‎, 28 January 1922 – 2 May 1996) was a Palestinian-Israeli writer of Arabic literature and a politician who served as a member of the Knesset for the communist parties Maki and Rakah. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Emile Habibi has received more than 134,638 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Emile Habibi is the 3,258th most popular writer (down from 3,029th in 2019), the 234th most popular biography from Israel (down from 209th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Israeli Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 130k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The secret life of Saeed the pessoptimist
Jewish-Arab relations, Fiction, African
1985
The Secret Life of Saeed (Third World Literature Series)
1985
The secret life of Saeed, the ill-fated pessoptimist
Jewish-Arab relations, Fiction
1982
Péchés oubliés
1991
The secret life of Saeed
Jewish-Arab relations, Fiction, Literary
2001
Saraya: The Ogre's Daughter
Fiction, general
2006

Page views of Emile Habibis by language

Over the past year Emile Habibi has had the most page views in the with 27,998 views, followed by Arabic (10,905), and Hebrew (6,614). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are English (96.73%), Esperanto (89.89%), and French (69.67%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Emile Habibi ranks 3,258 out of 7,302. Before him are Claude Bourgelat, Kosta Khetagurov, Kan Kikuchi, Gregory Benford, Jacques Delille, and Oles Honchar. After him are R. K. Narayan, Arnošt Muka, Ennio Flaiano, William of Jumièges, Erich Weinert, and Bekir Çoban-zade.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Emile Habibi ranks 210. Before him are Käbi Laretei, Gene Amdahl, Roy Salvadori, Jack Klugman, Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, and Stephen Kim Sou-hwan. After him are René Lévesque, Jock Stein, Bigode, Georges Cottier, Angel Wagenstein, and Burt Kennedy. Among people deceased in 1996, Emile Habibi ranks 139. Before him are Pilar Lorengar, Hernán Siles Zuazo, Margaux Hemingway, Paul Rand, Stanko Todorov, and Amata Kabua. After him are Tamara Toumanova, Idries Shah, Jack Nance, Henri Nouwen, Joseph Mermans, and Zulfiya.

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In Israel

Among people born in Israel, Emile Habibi ranks 234 out of 466. Before him are Aviv Kochavi (1964), Alfonso of Brienne (1227), Azmi Bishara (1956), Avraham Adan (1926), Moshe Safdie (1938), and Etgar Keret (1967). After him are Nir Barkat (1959), Ron Arad (1951), Gila Almagor (1939), Adi Shamir (1952), Tom Segev (1945), and Yakir Aharonov (1932).

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Among WRITERS In Israel

Among writers born in Israel, Emile Habibi ranks 14. Before him are May Ziade (1886), Ahron Daum (1951), Justus of Tiberias (35), Meir Shalev (1948), Gideon Levy (1953), and Etgar Keret (1967). After him are Amira Hass (1956), Zeruya Shalev (1959), Tony Cliff (1917), Salma Khadra Jayyusi (1926), Leigh Bardugo (1975), and Dahlia Ravikovitch (1936).

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