# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arwa-damon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T19:04:06.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arwa-damon"
name: "Arwa Damon"
slug: "arwa-damon"
description: "Arwa Damon is a Syrian American journalist who was most recently a senior international correspondent for CNN, based in Istanbul. From 2003, she covered the Middle East as a freelance journalist, before joining CNN in 2006. She is also president and founder of INARA, a humanitarian organization that provides medical treatment to refugee children from Syria. She left CNN in June 2022 to focus on her humanitarian work."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nic_Robertson%2C_Tony_Maddox%2C_Arwa_Damon%2C_Ivan_Watson%2C_and_Anderson_Cooper%2C_May_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1977-09-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.36
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.827
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/arwaCNN"
    handle:    "arwaCNN"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2661537/"
    handle:    "nm2661537"
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    title: "அர்வா டாமன்"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "اروى ديمون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ئاروا دەیمن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Arwa Damon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arwa_Damon"
    title: "Arwa Damon"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump