# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-shimon
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:13:56.555Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/samuel-shimon"
name: "Samuel Shimon"
slug: "samuel-shimon"
description: "Samuel Shimon is an Iraqi writer and journalist of Assyrian descent. He left Iraq in 1979 with dreams of becoming a director in Hollywood, and has since then lived in Damascus, Amman, Beirut, Nicosia, Aden, Cairo, Tunis and Paris, before finally settling in London. Along with his wife Margaret Obank, he is a co-founder and, since issue #39, editor of the literary magazine Banipal."
tagline: "Iraqi journalist"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.33
  momentum:             0.5633802816901409
  historical:           6.138733333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "صموئيل شمعون"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "স্যামুয়েল শিমন"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Shimon"
    title: "Samuel Shimon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Shimon"
    title: "Samuel Shimon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Shimon"
    title: "Samuel Shimon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Shimon"
    title: "Samuel Shimon"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4116528"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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