# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/selim-matar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:54.981Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/selim-matar"
name: "Selim Matar"
slug: "selim-matar"
description: "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."
tagline: "Iraqi-Swiss writer and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Selimmatar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1956"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           36.65
  momentum:             0.7920792079207921
  historical:           4.603924
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%B1"
    title: "سليم مطر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85_%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%B1"
    title: "سليم مطر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim_Matar"
    title: "Selim Matar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selim_Matar"
    title: "Selim Matar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B_%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%97%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98"
    title: "სელიმ მათარი"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3478131"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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