# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmad-faris-al-shidyaq
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:38:11.917Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ahmad-faris-al-shidyaq"
name: "Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq"
slug: "ahmad-faris-al-shidyaq"
description: "Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq was an Ottoman scholar, writer and journalist who grew up in what is now present-day Lebanon. A Maronite Christian by birth, he later lived in major cities of the Arabic-speaking world, where he had his career. He converted to Protestantism during the nearly two decades that he lived and worked in Cairo, present-day Egypt, from 1825 to 1848. He also spent time on the island of Malta. In 1857, with Evangelist American missionaries, he participated in the publishing of a novel Protestant Arabic translation of the Bible in Great Britain where Faris lived and worked for 7 years, becoming a British citizen. He next moved to Paris, France, for two years in the early 1850s, where he wrote and published some of his most important work."
tagline: "Linguist, writer, journalist, translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ahmad_Faris_al-Shidyaq_-_Al-Alam%2C_V1%2C_Page_236.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1802"
deathDate: "1887-09-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.24
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.958533333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Шидийяк, Ахмед"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "أحمد فارس الشدياق"
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    title: "احمد فارس الشدياق"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Faris_al-Shidyaq"
    title: "Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Faris_Shidyaq"
    title: "Ahmad Faris Shidyaq"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far%C3%A8s_Chidiac"
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    title: "Ահմադ Ֆարիս ալ-Շիդիակ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Faris_al-Shidyaq"
    title: "Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Faris_al-Shidyaq"
    title: "Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump