# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ashour-bin-khayal
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:01:02.317Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ashour-bin-khayal"
name: "Ashour Bin Khayal"
slug: "ashour-bin-khayal"
description: "Ashour Ben Khayal, sometimes romanised Ben Hayal, is a Libyan diplomat and politician who was born in the Cyrenaican city of Derna in September 1939. He was named Foreign Minister on 22 November 2011 by Abdurrahim El-Keib in a surprise move, as the position was originally reported to be filled by Libya's deputy ambassador to United Nations Ibrahim Dabbashi. He was described as little-known prior to his appointment."
tagline: "Libyan politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ashour_Bin_Khayal_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1939"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.4
  momentum:             0.5681818181818182
  historical:           7.203348
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ashour_Bin_Khayal"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "عاشور بن خيال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashour_Bin_Khayal"
    title: "Ashour Bin Khayal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achour_Bin_Hayal"
    title: "Achour Bin Hayal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashour_Bin_Khayal"
    title: "Ashour Bin Khayal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aszur_Bin_Chajjal"
    title: "Aszur Bin Chajjal"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D1%8F%D0%BB%D1%8C%2C_%D0%90%D1%88%D1%83%D1%80"
    title: "Бен Хаяль, Ашур"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B4%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AE%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%84"
    title: "عاشور بن خیال"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q748552"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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