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Asmaa Mahfouz

1985 - Today

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Asmaa Mahfouz (Egyptian Arabic: أسماء محفوظ, pronounced [ʔæsˈmæːʔ mɑħˈfuːz, ˈʔæsmæ-], born 1 February 1985) is an Egyptian activist and one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement. She has been credited by journalist Mona Eltahawy and others with helping to spark a mass uprising through her video blog posted one week before the start of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. She is a prominent member of Egypt's Coalition of the Youth of the Revolution and one of the leaders of the Egyptian revolution. In 2011 she was one of five recipients of the "Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought", awarded for contributions to "historic changes in the Arab world". Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2024). Asmaa Mahfouz is the 744th most popular social activist (down from 722nd in 2024), the 578th most popular biography from Egypt (up from 585th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Egyptian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Asmaa Mahfouz ranks 744 out of 840. Before her are Death of Carlo Giuliani, Stella Obasanjo, Lidia Yusupova, Rameshwari Nehru, Dick Gregory, and Mazen al-Hamada. After her are Edith Windsor, Valdete Idrizi, Burhan Sönmez, Ros Sopheap, Biljana Srbljanović, and Wael Ghonim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1985, Asmaa Mahfouz ranks 446. Before her are Vânia Fernandes, Kornel Saláta, David Gallagher, Alexander Dale Oen, Andrey Batt, and Giorgio Petrosyan. After her are Tomáš Hubočan, Otman Bakkal, Birkan Sokullu, Rafael Bastos, Havana Brown, and Oleksandr Aliyev.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Asmaa Mahfouz ranks 578 out of 642. Before her are Mohamed El Shenawy (1988), Tamer Hosny (1977), Taher Abouzeid (1962), Mamdouh Elssbiay (1984), Hamed Abdel-Samad (1972), and Ahmed Fathy (1984). After her are Mona Eltahawy (1967), Mohamed Barakat (1976), Wael Ghonim (1980), Gehad Grisha (1976), Wael Gomaa (1975), and Mohamed Aly (1975).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Egypt

Among social activists born in Egypt, Asmaa Mahfouz ranks 6. Before her are Hassan al-Banna (1906), Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927), Huda Sha'arawi (1879), Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872), and Maggie Gobran (1949). After her are Wael Ghonim (1980), Alaa Abd El-Fattah (1981), Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (1991), Sarah Hegazi (1989), Mona Seif (1986), and Nadeen Ashraf (1998).

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