# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/may-telmissany
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:59:39.276Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/may-telmissany"
name: "May Telmissany"
slug: "may-telmissany"
description: "May Telmissany is an Egyptian-Canadian novelist, translator, film critic and academic. She teaches Arabic studies and cinema at the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada."
tagline: "Egyptian-Canadian novelist, translator, film critic and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/May_Telmissany.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.007344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  243
  category: null
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    title: "مي التلمساني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "مى التلمسانى"
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    title: "May Telmissani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Telmissany"
    title: "May Telmissany"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Telmissany"
    title: "May Telmissany"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Telmissany"
    title: "May Telmissany"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "May Telmissany"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3302890"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump