# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/widad-kawar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:40:56.334Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/widad-kawar"
name: "Widad Kawar"
slug: "widad-kawar"
description: "Widad Kawar is a Palestinian art historian and collector of Palestinian and Jordanian ethnic and cultural arts. She has collected over 2,000 dresses, costumes, textiles, and jewelry over 50 years, seeking to preserve a culture that has been largely dispersed by conflict. Kawar is known as Umm l'ibas al-falastini—the mother of Palestinian dress."
tagline: "Palestinian collector of Palestinian ethnic and cultural arts, especially fabric, clothing, and jewelry"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1931"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.01
  momentum:             1.749049429657795
  historical:           11.211124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3452120/"
    handle:    "nm3452120"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.tirazcentre.org"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "وداد قعوار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "وداد قعوار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Widad Kawar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widad_Kawar"
    title: "Widad Kawar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widad_Kawar"
    title: "Widad Kawar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widad_Kawar"
    title: "Widad Kawar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widad_Kawar"
    title: "Widad Kawar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widad_Kawar"
    title: "Widad Kawar"
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    title: "Վիդադ Քավար"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Widad Kawar"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump