# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/youssef-chahine
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:04:11.048Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/youssef-chahine"
name: "Youssef Chahine"
slug: "youssef-chahine"
description: "Youssef Chahine was an Egyptian film director. He was active in the Egyptian film industry from 1950 until his death in 2008. He directed twelve films included in a list of Top 100 Egyptian films published by the Cairo International Film Festival. As a winner of the Cannes 50th Anniversary Award, Chahine was credited with launching the career of actor Omar Sharif. A well-regarded director with critics, he was often present at film festivals during the earlier decades of his work. Chahine gained his largest international audience as one of the co-directors of 11'9\"01 September 11 (2002)."
tagline: "Egyptian film director (1926–2008)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Youssef_Chahine_in_Cairo_1986.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Egypt"
  isoCode: "EG"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1926-01-25"
deathDate: "2008-07-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.87
  momentum:             2.574312955692653
  historical:           23.43130533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  216
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149631/"
    handle:    "nm0149631"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://youssefchahine.us/"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Jusuf Szahin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump