# Selim Matar

> Selim Matar is an Iraqi-Swiss writer, historian, and public intellectual who is the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Mesopotamia. Much of his body of work meditates on the nature of Iraqi nationalism; his concepts and theories, centring on the "Identity of the Iraqi Nation", gave rise to the eponymous cultural movement that grew out of it. He is chiefly known for his works The Woman of the Flask and The Wounded Self.

*Iraqi-Swiss writer and academic*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/selim-matar

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Born:** 1956
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

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## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 36.6 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.8 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 4.6 / 100
- **Now attention:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 30.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3478131)

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