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Ahmed Seif Al Islam, 60, is a veteran Egyptian lawyer,
activist and former political prisoner. Arrested and tortured by State Security
Investigations officers in 1983 for his political activity, he served five
years in prison. Founder of the Hisham Mubarak Law Centre, which since 2008 has
been the leading Egyptian nongovernmental organization providing legal
assistance to protesters. The Hisham Mubarak Law Centre monitored state
violence during the 2011 protests, and became a gathering place for human
rights activists during the revolution. Ahmed Seif was arrested by Military
Intelligence with his staff at the height of the protests.
Alaa Al Aswany is an Egyptian writer born in 1957, author of
acclaimed novel The Yacoubian Building. He was a founding member of the
political opposition movement Kefaya (“Enough”). Al Aswany is an influential
news columnist and also a practicing dentist. “I really do believe writing a
good novel is much more important than being the president of Egypt.”
Leading web activists, left to right: Mahmoud Salim, 29, is
an irreverent Egyptian blogger, best known by his web nickname “Sandmonkey.”
Salim was arrested and beaten but continued blogging and tweeting throughout
the Tahrir street protests. Mona Seif, 25, is an Egyptian blogger and youth
activist who participated in the Tahrir Square protests, she is the daughter of
veteran activist and lawyer Ahmed Seif. Gigi Ibrahim, 24, is an Egyptian
journalist, blogger and political activist. Hossam El-Hamalawy, 33, is a
leading Egyptian labor rights advocate, blogger and journalist. All four web
activists used their computers and cell phones to provide frequent updates
during the demonstrations on the violence against protesters.
Muslim-Christian
unity youth organizers, left to right: Moaz Abdel Kareem, 28, is from the youth
wing of the Muslim Brotherhood and participant in the Tahrir Square protests.
Sally Moore, 33, is a psychiatrist, feminist, Coptic Christian youth leader.
Mohammed Abbas, 26, is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s youth movement and
a leader in Tahrir Square who worked with secular counterparts and the April 6
movement in planning protests. Mohammad Abbas and Sally Moore drafted a “birth
certificate of a free Egypt” shortly after Mubarak’s resignation on February
11, 2011.
Heba Morayef
is the Cairo-based researcher for Human Rights Watch, covering Egypt. In the
middle of the demonstrations and violence during the Tahrir protests, Morayef
visited hospitals and morgues to document the civilian death toll from government
attacks and sniper fire. This casualty figure became the indispensable count
for global media as President Hosni Mubarak teetered in power.
Hossam
Bahgat, 31, is the director of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights,
which he founded in 2002. His organization has litigated for cutting-edge
rights issues including minority rights and personal freedoms. Recipient of
Human Rights Watch’s 2010 Alison Des Forges Defender Award, Bahgat has long
played a prominent role in exposing human rights violations in Egypt, including
the government’s failure to prosecute sectarian violence against Coptic
Christians.
The success
of the Tahrir Square uprising was virtually guaranteed when union and labor
activists brought hundreds of thousands of workers into the streets to join the
protests. Labor and human rights organizers, left to right: Kamal Abass, 57, is
a labor rights activist, director of the Center for Trade Unions and Workers
Services. Kamal Aby Eita, 58, is a labor rights activist, president of the
independent Union of Real Estate Tax Authority Employees—the first free union
in Egypt. Khaled Ali, 40, is a human rights lawyer who founded the Egyptian
Center for Economic and Social Rights to document and defend labor rights, as
well as other socio-economic rights. He won key cases against the Mubarak
government on minimum wage and the illegal sale of state property.
Laila Said
with Wael Ghonim. Laila is the mother of 28-year old Khaled Said, whose torture
and murder by Egyptian police on June 6, 2010, helped to spark the discontent
that eventually led to the Tahrir Square protests and President Hosni Mubarak’s
downfall. Speaking out about the murder of her son, Laila became known as the
“Mother of Egypt” and as an emblem of the consequences of endemic police
torture and impunity.
Sama Lotfy,
2, Neama El Sayed, 26, Yassin Lotfy, 6 months, are the children and widow of a
protester killed by Egyptian security forces during the Tahrir Square
demonstrations.
Mohammed
Abbas (left), key leader of the Muslim Brotherhood’s youth movement who worked
closely with secular counterparts and the April 6 movement in planning and
executing protests in Tahrir Square, and Moaz Abdel Kareem, Muslim Brotherhood
youth organizer and participant in the Tahrir Square protests.
Dr. Nawal
El Saadawi, 80, is an Egyptian writer, veteran women’s rights advocate,
psychiatrist and author of more than forty fiction and non-fiction books, many
of which address the persecution of Arab women. In 1981 she was imprisoned
after being charged with “political offenses.” In 1982, she founded the Arab
Women’s Solidarity Association. One of the earliest to report on the taboo
topic of female genital mutilation, Dr. El Saadawi’s decades-long struggle for
women’s rights and against FGM helped pave the way for the adoption of a
historic 2008 law that banned the practice in Egypt
Ramy Essam,
23, is a charismatic singer, guitarist and songwriter who became famous during
the Tahrir Square protests as “The Singer of the Square.” Detained and tortured
by the Egyptian military after President Hosni Mubarak fell, Ramy Essam has
written an album of songs called, “The Square,” based on his experiences during
and after the protests.
Sarrah Abdel
Rahman, 23, is a social media activist whose popular “Sarrah’s World” YouTube
commentaries report from Tahrir Square. She aspires to be a television
producer/journalist.
Sondos
Shabayek, 25, is a writer for independent Egyptian newspapers and magazines and
a “citizen journalist” who participated in and tweeted the story of the Tahrir
Square protests.
On April 1,
2011, Egyptians returned to Tahrir Square in Cairo for a rally to “save the
revolution” and protect their right to demonstrate.
Wael Ghonim, 30. Ghonim is a Google regional marketing
executive who administered the “We Are All Khaled Said” Facebook page after the
young Alexandria man’s brutal killing. Ghonim’s emotional and passionate
appearance on Egyptian television after being detained for 12 days by the
security police helped to energize the protest movement.
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