# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ahmad-zein
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:55:28.517Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ahmad-zein"
name: "Ahmad Zein"
slug: "ahmad-zein"
description: "Ahmad Zein is a critically-acclaimed Yemeni writer and journalist, currently living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He works for the Al-Hayat newspaper. He is the author of two novels and two short story collections. The author's work has been published in the Banipal magazine. His novel Fruit for the Crows was longlisted for the 2021 Arabic Booker Prize."
tagline: "Yemeni writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ahmad_Zein.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1968"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.04
  momentum:             15.16666666666667
  historical:           5.268862666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Zein"
    title: "Ahmad Zein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "أحمد زين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Zein"
    title: "Ahmad Zein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Zayn"
    title: "Ahmad Zayn"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Zein"
    title: "Ahmad Zein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Zein"
    title: "Ahmad Zein"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3698988"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump