# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sami-a-al-arian
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:40:26.293Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sami-a-al-arian"
name: "Sami A. Al-Arian"
slug: "sami-a-al-arian"
description: "Sami Amin Al-Arian is a Kuwaiti-born political activist of Palestinian origin who was a computer engineering professor at University of South Florida. During the Clinton administration and Bush administration, he was invited to the White House. He actively campaigned for the Bush presidential campaign in the United States presidential election in 2000."
tagline: "Egyptian civil rights activist, Ph.D."
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1958-01-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.11
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.310910666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Al-Arian"
    title: "Sami Al-Arian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سامي العريان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%89_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سامى العريان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "سامی العریان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_al-Arian"
    title: "Sami al-Arian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_Amin_Al-Arian"
    title: "Sami Amin Al-Arian"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2420955"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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