# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elmaz-abinader
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:11:42.077Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elmaz-abinader"
name: "Elmaz Abinader"
slug: "elmaz-abinader"
description: "Elmaz Abinader is an American author, poet, performer, English professor at Mills College and co-founder of the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA). She is of Lebanese descent. In 2000, she received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for her poetry collection In the Country of My Dreams...."
tagline: "Arab-American professor, author, poet, and performer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elmaz_Abinader_1186566.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.35
  momentum:             15
  historical:           5.069978666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmaz_Abinader"
    title: "Elmaz Abinader"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "الماز ابينادر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmaz_Abinader"
    title: "Elmaz Abinader"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D8%A7%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1"
    title: "یلماز ابیندر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmaz_Abinader"
    title: "Elmaz Abinader"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%8E%E0%B0%B2%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AE%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%8D_%E0%B0%85%E0%B0%AC%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%A8%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%A1%E0%B0%B0%E0%B1%8D"
    title: "ఎల్మాజ్ అబినాడర్"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16156285"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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