# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ibtihal-al-khatib
# Generated: 2026-08-15T23:20:58.092Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ibtihal-al-khatib"
name: "Ibtihal Al-Khatib"
slug: "ibtihal-al-khatib"
description: "Ibtihal Al-Khatib is a Kuwaiti academic, journalist, and prominent advocate of secular liberal values in Middle Eastern societies. She is a professor at the Kuwait University in the department of English Language and Literature. She has been the subject of controversy because of her outspoken defense of secularism, separation of church and state, and civil rights, including gay rights."
tagline: "Kuwait academic, activist and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ibtihal_Al-Khatib%2C_Munathara_Initiative_-_Jun_24%2C_2017_(02)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1972-02-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.478330666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/Ebtehal_A"
    handle:    "Ebtehal_A"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm18626658/"
    handle:    "nm18626658"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibtihal_Al-Khatib"
    title: "Ibtihal Al-Khatib"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%A8"
    title: "ابتهال الخطيب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%AA%D9%87%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D8%B7%D9%8A%D8%A8"
    title: "ابتهال الخطيب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibtihal_Al-Khatib"
    title: "Ibtihal Al-Khatib"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%91%D7%AA%D7%94%D7%90%D7%9C_%D7%90%D7%9C-%D7%97'%D7%98%D7%99%D7%91"
    title: "אבתהאל אל-ח'טיב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13637455"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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