POLITICIAN

Mehdi Ben Barka

1920 - 1965

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Mehdi Ben Barka (Arabic: المهدي بن بركة, romanized: al-Mahdī bin Baraka; 1920 – disappeared 29 October 1965) was a Moroccan nationalist, Arab socialist, politician, revolutionary, anti-imperialist, head of the left-wing National Union of Popular Forces (UNFP) and secretary of the Tricontinental Conference. An opponent of French imperialism and King Hassan II, he "disappeared" in Paris in 1965. Many theories attempting to explain what happened to him were put forward over the years; in 2018 new claims regarding his disappearance were made by Israeli journalist and author Ronen Bergman in his book Rise And Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mehdi Ben Barka has received more than 337,924 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mehdi Ben Barka is the 5,198th most popular politician (up from 5,622nd in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Morocco (up from 31st in 2019) and the 15th most popular Moroccan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mehdi Ben Barka ranks 5,198 out of 19,576. Before him are Desiderata of the Lombards, Princess Sophie of Sweden, 4th Dalai Lama, René Préval, Meir Dagan, and Anne Gonzaga. After him are Liu Zhang, Siemowit, Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria, Galswintha, Kersti Kaljulaid, and Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Mehdi Ben Barka ranks 82. Before him are Alicia Alonso, Yoshiko Yamaguchi, Dorothea Binz, Maurice Bucaille, Frank Sheeran, and Gottfried Böhm. After him are Peter D. Mitchell, Mario Benedetti, Hans Blumenberg, Henri Verneuil, José López Portillo y Pacheco, and Jaan Kross. Among people deceased in 1965, Mehdi Ben Barka ranks 34. Before him are Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, Louis Hjelmslev, Fan Noli, Adolf Schärf, Frederick Fleet, and David O. Selznick. After him are Lauri Törni, Sydney Chaplin, Clara Bow, Hans Knappertsbusch, Angelica Balabanoff, and Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Mehdi Ben Barka ranks 29 out of 264. Before him are Jean-Luc Mélenchon (1951), Ahmad al-Badawi (1199), Al-Rashid of Morocco (1631), Mordechai Vanunu (1954), Frida Boccara (1940), and Daniel Pennac (1944). After him are Abdelaziz of Morocco (1878), Larbi Benbarek (1914), Abd al-Rahman of Morocco (1779), Abd al-Hafid of Morocco (1875), Al-Shadhili (1197), and Amir Peretz (1952).

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Among POLITICIANS In Morocco

Among politicians born in Morocco, Mehdi Ben Barka ranks 15. Before him are Yusef of Morocco (1882), Ahmad al-Mansur (1549), Abu Yaqub Yusuf (1138), Hassan I of Morocco (1836), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (1951), and Al-Rashid of Morocco (1631). After him are Abdelaziz of Morocco (1878), Abd al-Rahman of Morocco (1779), Abd al-Hafid of Morocco (1875), Amir Peretz (1952), Aziz Akhannouch (1961), and Dominique de Villepin (1953).

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