# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tarek-heggy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:33:07.661Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tarek-heggy"
name: "Tarek Heggy"
slug: "tarek-heggy"
description: "Tarek Heggy is an Egyptian liberal author, political thinker and international petroleum strategist. Heggy is one of Egypt’s more prominent authors on the subject of Egypt’s need for political reform. His extensive writings advocate the values of modernity, democracy, tolerance, and women's rights in the Middle East – advancing them as universal values essential to the region's progress. He has lectured at universities throughout the world and various international institutions and think tanks, including The Heritage Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Council on Foreign Relations."
tagline: "Egyptian journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._Tarek_Heggy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-10-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.14
  momentum:             2.911392405063291
  historical:           7.207344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tarek-heggy.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "طارق حجي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "طارق حجى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek_Heggy"
    title: "Tarek Heggy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek_Heggy"
    title: "Tarek Heggy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek_Heggy"
    title: "Tarek Heggy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek_Heggy"
    title: "Tarek Heggy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarek_Heggy"
    title: "Tarek Heggy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2421984"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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