# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/salam-pax
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:03:33.099Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/salam-pax"
name: "Salam Pax"
slug: "salam-pax"
description: "Salam Pax is the pseudonym of Salam Abdulmunem, aka Salam al-Janabi, under which he became the \"most famous blogger in the world\" during and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Along with a massive readership, his site \"Where is Raed?\" received notable media attention. The pseudonym consists of the word for \"peace\" in Arabic (salām) and in Latin (pax). His was one of the first instances of an individual's blog having a wide audience and impact."
tagline: "Iraqi blogger"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Salam.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1974"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.18
  momentum:             5.130023640661939
  historical:           7.44608
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Pax"
    title: "Salam Pax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "سلام باكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "سلام باكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Pax"
    title: "Salam Pax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Pax"
    title: "Salam Pax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Pax"
    title: "Salam Pax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Pax"
    title: "Salam Pax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salam_Pax"
    title: "Salam Pax"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1347226"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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