# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tima-kurdi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:58:33.156Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tima-kurdi"
name: "Tima Kurdi"
slug: "tima-kurdi"
description: "Tima Kurdi is a Syrian-Canadian author and human rights activist. Born in Damascus, she moved to Canada as a young adult and is based in Coquitlam, British Columbia. Kurdi is the author of The Boy on the Beach, which documents the circumstances that led to the death of her nephews Ghalib and Alan Kurdi, and their mother, Rehanna as they fled the Syrian civil war."
tagline: "Syrian-Canadian author and human rights activist"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1970"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.44
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.073938666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tima_Kurdi"
    title: "Tima Kurdi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%A7_%D9%83%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%8A"
    title: "تيما كردي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "تیما کوردی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF%DB%8C"
    title: "تیما کردی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tima_Kurdi"
    title: "Tima Kurdi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AEma_Kurd%C3%AE"
    title: "Tîma Kurdî"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q113459682"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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