# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alifa-rifaat
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:02:02.417Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alifa-rifaat"
name: "Alifa Rifaat"
slug: "alifa-rifaat"
description: "Fatimah Rifaat, better known by her pen name Alifa Rifaat, was an Egyptian author whose controversial short stories are renowned for their depictions of the dynamics of female sexuality, relationships, and loss in rural Egyptian culture. While taking on such controversial subjects, Fatimah Rifaat's protagonists remained religiously faithful with passive feelings towards their fate. Her stories did not attempt to undermine the patriarchal system; rather they were used to depict the problems inherent in a patriarchal society when men do not adhere to their religious teachings that advocate for the kind treatment of women. Fatimah Rifaat used the pseudonym Alifa to prevent embarrassment on the part of her family due to the themes of her stories and her writing career."
tagline: "Egyptian Muslim feminist and writer (1930–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alifa_Rifaat.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1930-06-05"
deathDate: "1996-01-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.65
  momentum:             3.687371917178997
  historical:           17.81098
  currentAttention:     12.57861635220126
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump