# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ghada-al-samman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:43:13.467Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ghada-al-samman"
name: "Ghada al-Samman"
slug: "ghada-al-samman"
description: "Ghadah Al-Samman is a Syrian writer, journalist and novelist born in Damascus in 1942 to a prominent and conservative Damascene family. Her father was Ahmed Al-Samman, a president of the University of Damascus. She is distantly related to poet Nizar Qabbani, and was deeply influenced by him after her mother died at a very young age."
tagline: "Writer, journalist, novelist"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1942"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           53.29
  momentum:             4.664912435441352
  historical:           19.691548
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Самман, Гада"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump