# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rajaa-al-sanea
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:29:52.666Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rajaa-al-sanea"
name: "Rajaa al-Sanea"
slug: "rajaa-al-sanea"
description: "Rajaa al-Sanea is a Saudi Arabian writer who became famous through her novel Girls of Riyadh. The book was first published in Lebanon in 2005 and in English in 2007. Al-Sanea grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the daughter of a family of doctors. As of 2014, she is currently an assistant professor at the University of Illinois in Chicago."
tagline: "Saudi writer"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1981-09-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.65
  momentum:             1.317460317460318
  historical:           14.48293866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "Rajaa Alsanea"
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    title: "Rajaa Alsanea"
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    title: "Radża as-Sani"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rajaa al-Sanea"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump