# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aref-al-aref
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:29:20.828Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aref-al-aref"
name: "Aref al-Aref"
slug: "aref-al-aref"
description: "Aref al-Aref was a Palestinian journalist, historian and politician. Born in Jerusalem in 1891, he studied in Constantinople (Istanbul) and joined Al-Muntada al-Adabi until he joined the Ottoman army during World War I. He was captured and spent three years in a prisoner-of-war camp in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, from where he escaped after the Russian Revolution and returned to Palestine. He served as mayor of East Jerusalem in the 1950s during the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank."
tagline: "Palestinian journalist, historian and politician (1891-1973)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Aref_al-Aref.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1892"
deathDate: "1973-07-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.43
  momentum:             0
  historical:           10.49550266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Ариф аль-Ариф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "عارف العارف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "عارف العارف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Árif al-Árif"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aref_al-Aref"
    title: "Aref al-Aref"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aref_al-Aref"
    title: "Aref al-Aref"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aref_al-Aref"
    title: "Aref al-Aref"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%81"
    title: "عارف العارف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aref_al-Aref"
    title: "Aref al-Aref"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "עארף אל-עארף"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aref_al-Aref"
    title: "Aref al-Aref"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%86%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AB%E0%B5%8D_%E0%B4%85%E0%B5%BD_%E0%B4%86%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AB%E0%B5%8D"
    title: "ആരിഫ് അൽ ആരിഫ്"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q640881"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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