# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bassel-shehadeh
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:48:44.353Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bassel-shehadeh"
name: "Bassel Shehadeh"
slug: "bassel-shehadeh"
description: "Bassel Shehadeh was a Syrian film maker, producer, IT Engineer, environmental and cultural activist, and a well-known civil activist during the Syrian uprising in 2011 to 2012. He was a pioneer in organising peaceful protests in Damascus denouncing the government’s crackdown of the Arab Spring. Shehadeh was arrested while protesting with fellow artists in the al-Midan neighbourhood of Damascus. His camera captured and documented the assaults and bombardments conducted by the Syrian regime's forces on the city of Homs. He was killed during a government assault in the neighbourhood of al-Safsafa in Homs."
tagline: "Syrian film director"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1984-01-31"
deathDate: "2012-05-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.91
  momentum:             10
  historical:           7.037296
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Shehadeh"
    title: "Bassel Shehadeh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9"
    title: "باسل شحادة"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87"
    title: "باسل شحاده"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Shehadeh"
    title: "Bassel Shehadeh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Shehadeh"
    title: "Bassel Shehadeh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D8%B4%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%87"
    title: "باسل شحاده"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassel_Shehadeh"
    title: "Bassel Shehadeh"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4868047"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2308496"
    title: "Bassel Shehadeh"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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