# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bahaa-taher
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:59:23.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bahaa-taher"
name: "Bahaa Taher"
slug: "bahaa-taher"
description: "Bahaa Taher, sometimes transliterated as Bahaa Tahir, Baha Taher, or Baha Tahir, was an Egyptian novelist and short story writer who wrote in Arabic. He was awarded the inaugural International Prize for Arabic Fiction in 2008."
tagline: "Egyptian writer (1935 – 2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bahaa_Taher.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-01-13"
deathDate: "2022-10-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.15266533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "بهاء طاهر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بهاء طاهر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Баха Тахер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bahaa Taher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bahaa Taher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahaa_Taher"
    title: "Bahaa Taher"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bahaa Tahir"
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    title: "بهاء طاهر"
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    title: "Բահա Տահիր"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Baha Tahir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Тахир, Баха"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Baha Tahir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Бага Тагер"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump