# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/basma-abdel-aziz
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:51:07.298Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/basma-abdel-aziz"
name: "Basma Abdel Aziz"
slug: "basma-abdel-aziz"
description: "Basma Abdel Aziz is an Egyptian writer, psychiatrist, visual artist and human rights activist, nicknamed 'the rebel'. She lives in Cairo and is a weekly columnist for Egypt's al-Shorouk newspaper. She writes in Arabic, and her novels The Queue and Here Is A Body were published in English. For her literary and nonfiction work, she was awarded the Sawiris Cultural Award and other distinctions."
tagline: "Egyptian writer, psychiatrist, visual artist and human rights activist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1976"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.36
  momentum:             15
  historical:           7.473686666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "بسمة عبد العزيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بسمه عبدالعزيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Basma Abdel Aziz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basma_Abdel_Aziz"
    title: "Basma Abdel Aziz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%94_%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%93_%D7%90%D7%9C-%D7%A2%D7%96%D7%99%D7%96"
    title: "בסמה עבד אל-עזיז"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basma_Abdel_Aziz"
    title: "Basma Abdel Aziz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basma_Abdel_Aziz"
    title: "Basma Abdel Aziz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%81_%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "بسمہ عبد العزيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48973353"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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