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Imad Faraj

Moroccan, Algerian and French footballer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ38429432
Source-derived summary

Imad Faraj (born 11 February 1999) is a French professional footballer who plays as a right winger for Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 club Espérance de Tunis.

Early life

Imad Faraj was born in Croix, in the north of France, and is of Moroccan and Algerian descent. He holds both French and Moroccan nationalities.

Club career

Faraj made his professional debut for Lille in a Ligue 1 2–0 loss to SM Caen on 20 August 2017.

On 31 July 2020, Faraj joined Belgian First Division A club Mouscron on a one-year deal.

On 16 August 2021, he signed a one-year contract with AEK Larnaca in Cyprus, with an option for a second year.

International career

Faraj is a former youth international for France.

Personal life

Faraj is the older brother of Algerian youth international footballer Samy Faraj.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Imad Faraj” is moroccan, Algerian and French footballer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Imad, Faraj and Moroccan, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2017, 2020, 2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-02-11. For this dossier, Imad, Faraj and Moroccan is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “moroccan, Algerian and French footballer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q38429432. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2017, 2020 and 2021.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from Imad Faraj” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.