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Mohamed Hassanein Heikal

1923 - 2016

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Mohamed Hassanein Heikal (Arabic: محمد حسنين هيكل‎; 23 September 1923 – 17 February 2016) was an Egyptian journalist. For 17 years (1957–1974), he was editor-in-chief of the Cairo newspaper Al-Ahram and was a commentator on Arab affairs for more than 50 years. Heikal articulated the thoughts of President Gamal Abdel Nasser earlier in his career. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mohamed Hassanein Heikal has received more than 151,700 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mohamed Hassanein Heikal is the 42nd most popular journalist (up from 49th in 2019), the 360th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 380th in 2019) and the most popular Egyptian Journalist.

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  • 150k

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  • 52.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal ranks 42 out of 127. Before him are Marcelo H. del Pilar, François Mignet, Ara Güler, Marie Colvin, Pavlo Chubynsky, and Thomas Nast. After him are James Nachtwey, Marion Dönhoff, Joaquín Navarro-Valls, Eve Arnold, Robbie Ross, and Marcel Bezençon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal ranks 168. Before him are Inge Morath, Ellsworth Kelly, Evelyn McHale, Ziba Ganiyeva, Lydia Clarke, and Gerard Reve. After him are Jozef Lenárt, José Giovanni, Ann Miller, Václav Ježek, René Favaloro, and Linda Darnell. Among people deceased in 2016, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal ranks 184. Before him are Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Paul Kantner, Louis Pilot, Halil İnalcık, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, and Frank Sinatra Jr.. After him are David Huddleston, Georges Cottier, Qahhor Mahkamov, William H. McNeill, Alan Thicke, and Željko Čajkovski.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal ranks 360 out of 582. Before him are Sobekemsaf I (-1650), Syrianus (400), Nebettawy (-1250), Gohar Gasparyan (1924), Al-Musta'in (1390), and Mohammed Hussein Heikal (1888). After him are Haim Saban (1944), Ali ibn Ridwan (988), Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu (1943), Mohamed Salah (1992), Abbās al-Aqqād (1889), and Nasr Abu Zayd (1943).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Egypt

Among journalists born in Egypt, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal ranks 1. 

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