SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Samar Badawi

1981 - Today

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Samar bint Muhammad Badawi (Arabic: سمر بدوي; born 28 June 1981) is a Saudi Arabian human rights activist. She and her father filed court cases against each other in Saudi Arabia. Badawi's father accused her of disobedience under the Saudi Arabian male guardianship system and she charged her father with adhl—"making it hard or impossible for a person, especially a woman, to have what she wants, or what's rightfully hers; e.g, her right to marry" according to Islamic jurisprudence—for refusing to allow her to marry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samar Badawi has received more than 412,717 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Samar Badawi is the 745th most popular social activist (down from 611th in 2019), the 285th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (down from 201st in 2019) and the 5th most popular Saudi Arabian Social Activist.

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  • 410k

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  • 33.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Samar Badawi ranks 745 out of 840. Before her are Nisha Ayub, Cindy Sheehan, Nikolay Alexeyev, FannyAnn Eddy, Anjem Choudary, and Indira Bajramović. After her are Máxima Acuña, Ihor Kostenko, Edvin Kanka Cudic, Eva Abu Halaweh, Medea Benjamin, and Zainab Salbi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1981, Samar Badawi ranks 721. Before her are Jonas Källman, Tunahan Kuzu, Anis Boussaïdi, Vladimir Efimkin, Daniel Moreno, and Timo Bernhard. After her are Rosa López, Kanga Akalé, Hanna Pakarinen, Emre Aydın, Erik Guay, and Jorge Guagua.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Samar Badawi ranks 285 out of 354. Before her are Hamzah Saleh (1967), Ibrahim Suwayed (1974), Awad Al-Anazi (1968), Hamza Namira (1980), Ibrahim Mater (1975), and Abdulrahman Ghareeb (1997). After her are Nawaf Al Abed (1990), Abdullah Al-Khaibari (1996), Hussein Al-Sadiq (1973), Saud Kariri (1980), Omar Al-Ghamdi (1979), and Marzouk Al-Otaibi (1975).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Saudi Arabia

Among social activists born in Saudi Arabia, Samar Badawi ranks 5. Before her are Mukhtar al-Thaqafi (622), Nimr al-Nimr (1959), Manal al-Sharif (1979), and Loujain al-Hathloul (1989).

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