# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wadah-khanfar
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:42:42.241Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wadah-khanfar"
name: "Wadah Khanfar"
slug: "wadah-khanfar"
description: "Wadah Khanfar is the President of Al Sharq Forum, an independent network dedicated to developing long-term strategies for political development, social justice and economic prosperity of the people of the Middle East. He previously served as the Director General of Al Jazeera Media Network. He has been ranked by Foreign Policy Magazine in 2011 as the first in The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers, and in Fast Company as the first in the 100 Most Creative People in Business (2011) and as one of the most 'Powerful People in the World' by Forbes magazine (2009)., in 2008 World Economic Forum named Khanfar as one of the 'Young Global Leaders'."
tagline: "Palestinian journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wadah_Khanfar.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1968-09-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.81
  momentum:             1.356382978723404
  historical:           8.594605333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/khanfarw"
    handle:    "khanfarw"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/KhanfarW"
    handle:    "KhanfarW"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "وضاح خنفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وضاح خنفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadah_Khanfar"
    title: "Wadah Khanfar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D8%B6%D8%A7%D8%AD_%D8%AE%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B1"
    title: "وضاح خنفر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadah_Khanfar"
    title: "Wadah Khanfar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%93%D7%90%D7%97_%D7%97%D7%A0%D7%A4%D7%A8"
    title: "ודאח חנפר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "വദാഹ് ഖൻഫർ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadah_Khanfar"
    title: "Wadah Khanfar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaddah_Hanfar"
    title: "Vaddah Hanfar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2918071"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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