# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samir-kassir
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:41:33.261Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samir-kassir"
name: "Samir Kassir"
slug: "samir-kassir"
description: "Samir Kassir was a Lebanese-Syrian-Palestinian journalist of An-Nahar and professor of history at Saint-Joseph University, who was an advocate of democracy and prominent opponent of the Syrian occupation of Lebanon. He was assassinated in 2005 as part of a series of assassinations of anti-Syria Lebanese political figures such as Rafic Hariri and George Hawi."
tagline: "Lebanese journalist (1960-2005)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/SamirKassirPoster.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1960-05-05"
deathDate: "2005-06-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.83
  momentum:             0
  historical:           12.247052
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Samir Kassir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سمير قصير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%82%D8%B5%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "سمير قصير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "سەمیر قەسیڕ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Kassir"
    title: "Samir Kassir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Kassir"
    title: "Samir Kassir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Kassir"
    title: "Samir Kassir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B1_%D9%82%D8%B5%DB%8C%D8%B1"
    title: "سمیر قصیر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Kassir"
    title: "Samir Kassir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Kassir"
    title: "Samir Kassir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Kassir"
    title: "Samir Kassir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Qasir"
    title: "Samir Qasir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samir_Kassir"
    title: "Samir Kassir"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%80%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80"
    title: "Кассир, Самир"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q713162"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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