# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ali-al-muqri
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:23:19.474Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ali-al-muqri"
name: "Ali al-Muqri"
slug: "ali-al-muqri"
description: "Ali al-Muqri is a Yemeni novelist and writer. Two of his novels - Black Taste, Black Odour and The Handsome Jew - have been long-listed for the Arab Booker Prize. He also received a special commendation from the jury of the 2015 French Prize for Arabic Literature, for his novel Ḥurma, translated into French by Khaled Osman and Ola Mehanna."
tagline: "Yemeni journalist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ali_al-Muqri_-_Literarische_Aufwachr%C3%A4ume_(7162488779)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.13
  momentum:             4.123847167325428
  historical:           5.674874666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CA%BFAl%C4%AB_al-Muqr%C4%AB"
    title: "ʿAlī al-Muqrī"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A"
    title: "علي المقري"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%89"
    title: "على المقرى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_al-Muqri"
    title: "Ali al-Muqri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_al-Muqri"
    title: "Ali al-Muqri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_al-Muqri"
    title: "Ali al-Muqri"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11281342"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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