# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/essma-ben-hamida
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:03:28.743Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/essma-ben-hamida"
name: "Essma Ben Hamida"
slug: "essma-ben-hamida"
description: "Essma Ben Hamida is a Tunisian schoolteacher, journalist and entrepreneur. After opening and operating a branch of the Tunisian news agency TAP at the UN Headquarters in New York, she returned to Tunisia and together with her British husband, Michael Cracknell, founded Enda inter-arabe in 1990 on the basis of Enda Third World. As Enda Tamweel, it has since become a highly successful microfinance institution for women, admitting men providing their wives act as guarantors. In 2010, Ben Hamida was honoured as \"Outstanding Social Entrepreneur in the Middle East and North Africa\" by the Schwab Foundation and the World Economic Forum."
tagline: "Tunisian schoolteacher, journalist and entrepreneur"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Essma_Ben_Hamida.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1951"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.603816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/bhessma"
    handle:    "bhessma"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/essma_ben_hamida/"
    handle:    "essma_ben_hamida"
  - platform:  "LINKEDIN"
    url:       "https://www.linkedin.com/in/essma/"
    handle:    "essma"
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1_%D8%A8%D9%86_%D8%AD%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9"
    title: "أسماء بن حميدة"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essma_Ben_Hamida"
    title: "Essma Ben Hamida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essma_Ben_Hamida"
    title: "Essma Ben Hamida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essma_Ben_Hamida"
    title: "Essma Ben Hamida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essma_Ben_Hamida"
    title: "Essma Ben Hamida"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28920792"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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