# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/halima-bashir
# Generated: 2026-08-12T23:41:55.431Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/halima-bashir"
name: "Halima Bashir"
slug: "halima-bashir"
description: "Halima Bashir is the fictitious name of a Sudanese medical doctor, who is the author of Tears of the Desert, a memoir about women's experiences with genocide and war in Darfur. She worked as a doctor in rural Sudan, before being abused at the hands of the National Intelligence and Security Service after reporting truthfully to United Nations officials about an attack by the Janjaweed militia on a nearby school. She has since moved to the United Kingdom, where she claimed asylum."
tagline: "Sudanese doctor and author"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Halima_Bashir_with_George_Bush.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1979"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.38
  momentum:             10
  historical:           13.16137733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Halima Bashir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halima_Bashir"
    title: "Halima Bashir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A9_%D8%A8%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "حليمة بشير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%87_%D8%A8%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "حليمه بشير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%B6%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B0"
    title: "হালিমা বশির"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal%C3%ADma_Ba%C5%A1%C3%ADr"
    title: "Halíma Bašír"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halima_Bashir"
    title: "Halima Bashir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halima_Bashir"
    title: "Halima Bashir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85%D9%87_%D8%A8%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "حلیمه بشیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halima_Bashir"
    title: "Halima Bashir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halima_Bashir"
    title: "Halima Bashir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halima_Bashir"
    title: "Halima Bashir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B0%D1%88%D0%B8%D1%80%2C_%D0%A5%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B0"
    title: "Башир, Халима"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halima_Bashir"
    title: "Halima Bashir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%81_%D8%A8%D8%B4%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "حلیمہ بشیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halima_Bashir"
    title: "Halima Bashir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5642337"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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