# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sophie-bessis
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:00:25.201Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sophie-bessis"
name: "Sophie Bessis"
slug: "sophie-bessis"
description: "Sophie Bessis is a Tunisian-born French historian, journalist, researcher, and feminist author. She has written numerous works in French, Spanish, and English on development in the Maghreb and the Arab world, as well as the situation of women denouncing the identity imprisonment to which they are subjected. She is the recipient of the Paris Liège literary prize and was honored as Commandeur of the Order of the Republic."
tagline: "French-Tunisian historian and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sophie_Bessis-Festival_international_de_g%C3%A9ographie_2011_(3).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.78
  momentum:             10
  historical:           8.538137333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3328747/"
    handle:    "nm3328747"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "صوفي بسيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "صوفى بسيس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Bessis"
    title: "Sophie Bessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Bessis"
    title: "Sophie Bessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Bessis"
    title: "Sophie Bessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Bessis"
    title: "Sophie Bessis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Bessis"
    title: "Sophie Bessis"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3490856"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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