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Mahdi Elmandjra

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Moroccan academic (1933-2014)

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Mahdi Elmandjra was a Moroccan futurologist, economist and sociologist. He is one of the founders of the International Federation for Future Studies (Futuribles).

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1986Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd class
1985Fellow of the African Academy of Sciences
Officer of Arts and Letters

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Mahdi Elmandjra was a Moroccan futurologist, economist and sociologist. He is one of the founders of the International Federation for Future Studies (Futuribles). He predicted a number of events, the most important of which was the clash of civilisations in his book "The first civilisation war" in 1992, that is, before Samuel Huntington, who used the same concept in his book "The clash of civilisations" issued in 1996. Mahdi Elmandjra also predicted the occurrence of the "Arab Spring", which he referred to in his writings under the name of "Intifada".

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Lived 1933 to 2014 · aged 81
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