# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elaine-mokhtefi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:25:44.299Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elaine-mokhtefi"
name: "Elaine Mokhtefi"
slug: "elaine-mokhtefi"
description: "Elaine Mokhtefi is an American and Algerian activist, translator, and writer. Born in New York, Mokhtefi began working as a translator for anti-racist and anti-colonial activist movements after moving to Paris in her twenties. She supported Algerian independence efforts, then lived in Algeria from 1962 until she was forced to leave the country in 1974. Her memoir of her time there, Algiers, Third World Capital: Freedom Fighters, Revolutionaries, Black Panthers, was published by Verso Books in 2018."
tagline: "Algerian activist and author born in New York (*1928)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1928"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           42.48
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.950145333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "إيلين مختفي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ايلين مختفى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Elaine Mokhtefi"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Mokhtefi"
    title: "Elaine Mokhtefi"
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  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Mokhtefi"
    title: "Elaine Mokhtefi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Mokhtefi"
    title: "Elaine Mokhtefi"
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  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Mokhtefi"
    title: "Elaine Mokhtefi"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump