# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/omar-amiralay
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:15:08.920Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/omar-amiralay"
name: "Omar Amiralay"
slug: "omar-amiralay"
description: "Omar Amiralay was a Syrian documentary film director and civil society activist. He is noted for the political criticism in his films, and played a prominent role in the events of the Damascus Spring of 2000."
tagline: "Syrian documentary film director and prominent civil society activist (1944–2011)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/8Fn3s1W6LKSwTNfUeLKekn5mbqP.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1944-10-20"
deathDate: "2011-02-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1131827"
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    title: "Omar Amiralay"
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    title: "Omar Amiralay"
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    title: "Omar Amiralay"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump