# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-abu-awwad
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:31:15.135Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-abu-awwad"
name: "Ali Abu Awwad"
slug: "ali-abu-awwad"
description: "Ali Abu Awwad is a prominent Palestinian peace activist and proponent of nonviolence. He is the founder of Taghyeer (Change), a Palestinian national movement promoting nonviolence to achieve and guarantee a nonviolent solution to the conflict. Awwad's story and efforts have been featured in over twelve documentaries including two award-winning films, Encounter Point and Forbidden Childhood. Furthermore, he was honored by the global nonprofit thinktank Synergos as the Arab World Social Innovator in Palestine for \"introducing non-violence, reconciliation, and civic participation to Palestinians as a means of empowering citizens to seek social change and find a more equitable solution to conflict.\" Awwad is currently finishing his memoir called Painful Hope, an account of his experiences as well as his strategy and vision for the Palestinian future. He lives in Beit Ummar, near Hebron."
tagline: "Palestinian activist and pacifist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ali_Abu_Awwad_par_Claude_Truong-Ngoc_juillet_2014.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1972"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.1
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.824948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF"
    title: "علي أبو عواد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Abu_Awwad"
    title: "Ali Abu Awwad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Abu_Awwad"
    title: "Ali Abu Awwad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A2%D7%9C%D7%99_%D7%90%D7%91%D7%95_%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%95%D7%90%D7%93"
    title: "עלי אבו עוואד"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Abu_Awwad"
    title: "Ali Abu Awwad"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4724552"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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