# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rima-maktabi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:26:55.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rima-maktabi"
name: "Rima Maktabi"
slug: "rima-maktabi"
description: "Rima Maktabi is a Lebanese TV presenter and award-winning journalist who returned to al-Arabiya after hosting CNN's monthly program Inside the Middle East for two years and previously working at the Arab satellite channel since 2005. She was among several female Arab journalists who first became known through her reporting during the 2006 Lebanon War and who had successful careers afterward, including Maktabi and her former colleague at al-Arabiya Najwa Qassem."
tagline: "Lebanese journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rima_Maktabi_-_World_Economic_Forum_on_the_Middle_East%2C_North_Africa_and_Eurasia_2012_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1977-05-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.17
  momentum:             2.905569007263922
  historical:           6.86732
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/rimamaktabi"
    handle:    "rimamaktabi"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ريما مكتبي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريما مكتبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Rima Maktabi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ریما مکتبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima_Maktabi"
    title: "Rima Maktabi"
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    title: "റിമ മക്തബി"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump