# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nawaal-akram
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:15:01.844Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nawaal-akram"
name: "Nawaal Akram"
slug: "nawaal-akram"
description: "Nawaal Akram is a Qatari comedian, model, athlete and disability rights campaigner. She was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy at the age of six, and was forcefully removed from education against her wishes at the age of 10 by the school; she became a wheelchair user at the age of 12. She has since founded Muscular Dystrophy Qatar to raise awareness of the condition, and was named one of BBC's 100 Women programme in 2017."
tagline: "Qatari comedian, model, athlete and disability rights campaigner"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nawaal_Akram.png?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1995"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.97
  momentum:             2.771084337349398
  historical:           5.470482666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 231
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawaal_Akram"
    title: "Nawaal Akram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A3%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%85"
    title: "نوال أكرم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%85"
    title: "نوال اكرم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84_%D8%A7%DA%A9%D8%B1%D9%85"
    title: "نوال اکرم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawaal_Akram"
    title: "Nawaal Akram"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BC"
    title: "Наваль Акрам"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41240176"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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