# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vera-baboun
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:24:18.193Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vera-baboun"
name: "Vera Baboun"
slug: "vera-baboun"
description: "Vera George Ghattas Baboun is a Palestinian politician who served as the first female mayor of Bethlehem. Baboun has a master's degree in African-American literature. Prior to her election, she became the principal of the Roman Catholic High School in Beit Sahour (2010-2012) and was an English literature lecturer at Bethlehem University, (1990-2010) where she was also the Assistant Dean of Students (2000-2006). Additionally, she is the chairperson of the Board of Directors for Guidance and Training Centre for Family and Children as well as a gender studies researcher in GRACE network looking at the role of information technology in empowering women in the Arab world. Baboun is the mother of five children. She is a Palestinian Christian."
tagline: "Palestinian Ambassador to Chile"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tour_Of_Bethlehem%E2%80%99s_Church_Of_The_Nativity_(30088358685)_(cropped-Vera_Baboun).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1964-10-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.07
  momentum:             0.2391304347826087
  historical:           16.016956
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "100063476359747"
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    handle:    "vera-baboun-63b600181"
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    title: "Vera Baboun"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump