# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leila-al-shami
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:17:54.328Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leila-al-shami"
name: "Leila Al-Shami"
slug: "leila-al-shami"
description: "Leila al-Shami is a British-Syrian human rights defender, anarchist political activist, blogger and writer. She was a member of Haitham al-Maleh's Human Rights Association in Syria (HRAS) during the Damascus Spring in 2001, co-founded the Tahrir International Collective Network during the Arab Spring in 2012, and co-authored Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War with Robin Yassin-Kassab in 2016."
tagline: "Syrian author and human rights activist"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1901"
livingStatus: "UNKNOWN"
scores:
  popularity:           39.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.875486666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/LeilaShami"
    handle:    "LeilaShami"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Al-Shami"
    title: "Leila Al-Shami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A"
    title: "ليلى الشامي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_al-Shami"
    title: "Leila al-Shami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C-%D0%A8%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96"
    title: "Лейла аль-Шамі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Al-Shami"
    title: "Leila Al-Shami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Al-Shami"
    title: "Leila Al-Shami"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109376840"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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