# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elissa-rhais
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:28:37.699Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elissa-rhais"
name: "Elissa Rhaïs"
slug: "elissa-rhais"
description: "Elissa Rhaïs, born Rosine Boumendil was a Jewish-Algerian writer, who adopted the persona of a Muslim woman who had escaped from a harem to further her literary career. Her novels were popular in her lifetime, but declined; interest in her life was revived in the 1980s by a claim that all her publications had been ghost-written and that she was illiterate."
tagline: "Algerian salon-holder"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elissa_rhais-1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1876-12-12"
deathDate: "1940-08-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.03
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.411484000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elissa_Rha%C3%AFs"
    title: "Elissa Rhaïs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "إليسا رايس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elissa_Rha%C3%AFs"
    title: "Elissa Rhaïs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elissa_Rha%C3%AFs"
    title: "Elissa Rhaïs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B3%D8%A7_%D8%B1%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3"
    title: "الیسا رایس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elissa_Rha%C3%AFs"
    title: "Elissa Rhaïs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%94_%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A1"
    title: "אליסה ראיס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elissa_Rha%C3%AFs"
    title: "Elissa Rhaïs"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3051143"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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