# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alaa-al-aswany
# Generated: 2026-08-31T18:43:50.390Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/alaa-al-aswany"
name: "Alaa Al Aswany"
slug: "alaa-al-aswany"
description: "Alaa Al Aswany is an Egyptian writer, novelist, dentist and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya. He is based in Paris and New York, where he lives and teaches creative writing."
tagline: "Egyptian writer"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "EG"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1957-05-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  82
  category: null
totalFollowers: 109000
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    title: "Alaa Al Aswany"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump