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Middle East

The Middle East (or, formerly more common, the Near East) is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa.
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Middle East's most talked about people

Geographical media regularly compiles statistics from hundreds of online sources from different countries from around the world. We focus on gathering top news sources which are mainstream news papers preferrably also in print. From these sources we monitor who, what and where each article is about and compile statistics based on what we find.

We use the information from this media montoring to calculate a rating for each person, place or thing which we call their World Coverage Rating which is based on three factors:

  • Population: The amount of population in the given country where the news stories were published. We call this Exposure.

  • Percent of Local News: The percent of all front page news stories in which the person or company appears which were first published in the given country. We call this Coverage.

  • Geographical and Geopolitical Distance: The physical distance between the country where the person or company is from and the publishing country and the total number of countries in which they were published. We call this Reach.

The result is a continuously updated list (below) of the most talked about people in the past week organized by where the person, company or organization is from. To see the details of the statistical calulation of any individual click on their World Coverage Rating score. To narrow your search to a specific location click on one of the locations above.

The following are the most talked about people from Middle East based on their World Coverage Rating:

World Coverage Rating

1.

Tuncay Şanlı

Tuncay Şanlı

Tuncay Şanlı is a Turkish footballer who plays for Middlesbrough, since joining from Fenerbahçe in June 2007.

World » middle east » turkey »

( 22.72 )


2.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is serving as the Prime Minister of Turkey since March 14, 2003.

World » middle east » turkey »

( 19.69 )


3.

Nouri al-Maliki

Nouri al-Maliki

Nouri Kamil Mohammed Hasan al-Maliki , also known as Jawad al-Maliki or Abu Esraa, is the Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party.

World » middle east » iraq »

( 12.59 )


4.

Abdullah Gül

Abdullah Gül

Abdullah Gül is the 11th President of the Republic of Turkey, serving in that office since 28 August 2007.

World » middle east » turkey »

( 12.28 )


5.

Ali Larijani

Ali Larijani

Ali Ardashir Larijani is an Iranian philosopher, politician and the chairman/speaker of the Iranian parliament.

World » middle east » iran »

( 9.18 )


6.

Ali Khamenei

Ali Khamenei

Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hoseyni Khāmene’i , also known as Ali Khamenei, is an Iranian politician and cleric.

World » middle east » iran »

( 8.02 )


7.

Abdolmalek Rigi

Abdolmalek Rigi

Abdolmalek Rigi is the leader of Jundallah, a terrorist organization based in the southeastern area of Iran.

World » middle east » iran »

( 7.70 )


8.

Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak

Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister, and current Minister of Defense, deputy prime minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party.

World » middle east » israel »

( 7.34 )


9.

Naif bin Abdulaziz

Naif bin Abdulaziz

Prince Naif/Nayef bin Abdul Aziz is the Second Deputy Prime Minister, 3rd in line of succession to King of Saudi Arabia and long time Minister of Interior of Saudi Arabia.

World » middle east » saudi arabia »

( 6.97 )


10.

Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud

Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud

Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is a retired officer in the Royal Saudi Air Force and a former astronaut.

World » middle east » saudi arabia »

( 6.97 )


11.

Abdullah

Abdullah

Dr Abdullah is an Afghan politician who was the Foreign Minister of Afghanistan from 2001-2006.

World » middle east » saudi arabia »

( 6.74 )


12.

Saad Hariri

Saad Hariri

Saad ed Deen Rafiq al-Hariri , is a Lebanese-Saudi businessman and politician, and the second son of Rafiq Hariri, the assassinated former Prime Minister of Lebanon.

World » middle east » saudi arabia »

( 6.69 )


13.

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the founder of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, best known for the September 11 attacks on the United States.

World » middle east » saudi arabia »

( 6.26 )


14.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born 28 October 1956) is the sixth and current President of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

World » middle east » iran »

( 6.16 )


15.

Iyad Allawi

Iyad Allawi

Ayad Allawi is an Iraqi politician, and was the interim Prime Minister of Iraq prior to Iraq's 2005 legislative elections.

World » middle east » iraq »

( 6.14 )


16.

Hamid Mirza

Hamid Mirza

Prince Soltan Hamid Mirza Qajar (23 April 1918 – 5 May 1988) was the head and heir presumptive of the Qajar dynasty the former ruling dynasty of Iran and the son of the last Qajar Crown Prince of Iran He was born in Tabriz, the son of Crown Prince Mohammad Hassan Mirza and his second wife Muhtaram Razzaghi.

World » middle east » iran »

( 5.54 )


17.

Ahmet Davutoğlu

Ahmet Davutoğlu

Professor Ahmet Davutoğlu is a Turkish political scientist, an academic and an ambassador.

World » middle east » turkey »

( 4.56 )


18.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Queen Rania of Jordan

Queen Rania of Jordan , is the queen consort of Jordan and the wife of King Abdullah II of Jordan Rania Al-Yassin was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents from Tulkarm.

World » middle east » kuwait »

( 4.27 )


19.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin Netanyahu

Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu, also Binyamin Netanyahu (born 21 October 1949) is the current Prime Minister of Israel.

World » middle east » israel »

( 4.20 )


20.

Manouchehr Mottaki

Manouchehr Mottaki

Manouchehr Mottaki is the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs appointed by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

World » middle east » iran »

( 4.11 )


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