# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chaima-issa
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:11:02.522Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chaima-issa"
name: "Chaima Issa"
slug: "chaima-issa"
description: "Chaima Issa is a Tunisian journalist, writer, poet and human rights activist. She is a senior member of the National Salvation Front, a prominent opposition coalition in Tunisia. She is one of the opposition figures arrested by President Kais Saied on the charges of \"conspiracy against state security\", and labelled terrorists in February 2023. She is the first woman political prisoner under President Kais Saied rule."
tagline: "Tunisian poet, writer, journalist and human rights activist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chaima_Issa%2C_The_Munathara_Initiative_-_Jun_25%2C_2017.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1979-12-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.68
  momentum:             3.152804642166344
  historical:           6.157813333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/chaimaissaa"
    handle:    "chaimaissaa"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "شيماء عيسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha%C3%AFma_Issa"
    title: "Chaïma Issa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaima_Issa"
    title: "Chaima Issa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cha%C3%AFma_Issa"
    title: "Chaïma Issa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaima_Issa"
    title: "Chaima Issa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaima_Issa"
    title: "Chaima Issa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107644037"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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