# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basil-al-khatib
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:48:58.936Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basil-al-khatib"
name: "Basil Al-Khatib"
slug: "basil-al-khatib"
description: "Basil Al-Khatib is a Syrian movie and TV director, from a Palestinian origin. He was born on 6 May 1962 in Hilversum, the Netherlands. He has lived with his family in Damascus, Syria since 1963. His father is the Palestinian poet Yousif Al-Khatib."
tagline: "Palestinian Syrian director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Basel_Al_Khatib_1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.18
  momentum:             0.1165254237288136
  historical:           6.83438
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5827108/"
    handle:    "nm5827108"
sources:
  - url: "https://fa.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B7%DB%8C%D8%A8"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%A8"
    title: "باسل الخطيب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%A8"
    title: "باسل الخطيب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%AE%DB%95%D8%AA%DB%8C%D8%A8"
    title: "باسیل خەتیب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Al-Khatib"
    title: "Basil Al-Khatib"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D8%AE%D8%B7%DB%8C%D8%A8"
    title: "باسل خطیب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Al-Khatib"
    title: "Basil Al-Khatib"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12195717"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3813907"
    title: "Basil Al-Khatib"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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