# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zakaria-tamer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:49:36.627Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zakaria-tamer"
name: "Zakaria Tamer"
slug: "zakaria-tamer"
description: "Zakaria Tamer, also spelled Zakariya Tamir, is a Syrian short story writer. He is one of the most widely read and translated short story writers of modern Syrian literature, as well as one of the foremost authors of children’s stories in Arabic. He also worked as a freelance journalist, writing satirical columns in Arabic newspapers."
tagline: "Syrian Writer of Short stories, Newspaper Columnist, Newspaper Editor"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1931-01-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.14
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.56454533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "জাকারিয়া তামের"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Zakaria Tamer"
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    title: "Zakaria Tamer"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Зекерија Тамир"
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    title: "扎卡里亚·塔米尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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