# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samiha-khrais
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:53:25.454Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samiha-khrais"
name: "Samiha Khrais"
slug: "samiha-khrais"
description: "Samiha Khrais, alternative spelling Samihah Kharis is a Jordanian novelist, journalist and translator. She was born in Amman and completed her primary and secondary school education in Qatar and Sudan and her university education in Egypt. For around 20 years, Khrais held a number of positions in the field of journalism, including editor-in-chief for Jordanian Hatem  magazine and writer for Al-Ittihad newspaper, among others. She served as board member of the Radio and Television Department and PEN International in Jordan, and one of the founders of Emirates Writers Union. She has published over 15 literary works, and was nominated for a number of literary prizes, most notably, the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel in 2017."
tagline: "Jordanian novelist, journalist and translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%A9_%D8%AE%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956-08-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.23
  momentum:             15
  historical:           4.604608
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%A9_%D8%AE%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "سميحة خريس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samiha_Khreis"
    title: "Samiha Khreis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samiha_Khrais"
    title: "Samiha Khrais"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samiha_Khreis"
    title: "Samiha Khreis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikiquote.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AD%D8%A9_%D8%AE%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12216854"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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