WRITER

Farag Foda

1946 - 1992

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Farag Foda (Arabic: فرج فودة [ˈfɑɾɑɡ ˈfoːdæ, ˈfuːdæ]; 20 August 1945 – 8 June 1992) was a prominent Egyptian professor, writer, columnist, and human rights activist. He was assassinated on 8 June 1992 by members of the Islamist group al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya after being accused of blasphemy by a committee of scholars (ulama) at al-Azhar University. Farag Foda was one of 202 people killed by "Islamist motivated assaults" in Egypt between March 1992 and September 1993. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Farag Foda has received more than 179,879 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Farag Foda is the 2,846th most popular writer (up from 3,609th in 2019), the 385th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 413th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Egyptian Writer.

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  • 180k

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  • 59.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Farag Foda ranks 2,846 out of 7,302. Before him are Delmira Agustini, Mariama Bâ, Fatma Aliye Topuz, Lucius Afranius, Saken Seifullin, and Ango Sakaguchi. After him are Song Yingxing, Guiraut Riquier, Peter Wessel Zapffe, William L. Shirer, Heinrich Vogeler, and Mahasweta Devi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Farag Foda ranks 262. Before him are Ewa Kłobukowska, Jeff Wall, Camilo Sesto, Adam Michnik, Leszek Miller, and Abdul Ali Mazari. After him are Dick Wolf, Sonthi Boonyaratglin, Jacques Tardi, Zülfü Livaneli, Arnoldo Alemán, and Diane von Fürstenberg. Among people deceased in 1992, Farag Foda ranks 120. Before him are Mohammad Hidayatullah, Borislav Pekić, Joe Shuster, Anthony Dawson, Ernst Schäfer, and Gustav Lombard. After him are Nie Rongzhen, Emilio Recoba, Willie Dixon, Angela Carter, Rihei Sano, and František Tomášek.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Farag Foda ranks 385 out of 642. Before him are Peter III of Alexandria (500), Pope Heraclas of Alexandria (180), Zubaida Tharwat (1940), Autobiography of Harkhuf (-2300), Mohamed Hassanein Heikal (1923), and Nebetah (-1350). After him are Kamal Ganzouri (1933), Mostafa El-Nahas (1879), Saif al-Adel (1960), Salama Moussa (1887), Gohar Gasparyan (1924), and Antigone Costanda (1934).

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Among WRITERS In Egypt

Among writers born in Egypt, Farag Foda ranks 35. Before him are Didymus Chalcenterus (-63), Dionysius Periegetes (100), Apion (-30), Mohammed Hussein Heikal (1888), Mustafa Kamil Pasha (1874), and Olympiodorus of Thebes (301). After him are Salama Moussa (1887), Georges Schehadé (1905), Abbās al-Aqqād (1889), Eutychius of Alexandria (877), C. S. Forester (1899), and André Aciman (1951).

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