Asmaa Mahfouz

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Asmaa Mahfouz

February 1, 1985 -



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 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.
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Haiku and Senryu


I, a girl,
am going down to Tahrir Square:
Asmaa Mahfouz

Chen-ou Liu

written for International Women's Day, March 8

Note:
Asmaa Mahfouz, 26 years old, is an Egyptian activist and one of the founders of the April 6 Youth Movement, a group that played a key role in organizing the January 25th protests. In a video blog posted to Facebook on January 18, she called for people to protest in Tahrir Square on January 25th and demand their fundamental human rights. The video was uploaded to Youtube and went viral across Egypt within days. She has been credited by journalist Mona Eltahawy and many others with helping spark the Egyptian Uprising.

The following is an excerpt from
Asmaa Mahfouz's video transcript


Four Egyptians have set themselves on fire to protest humiliation and hunger and poverty and degradation they had to live with for 30 years. Four Egyptians have set themselves on fire thinking maybe we can have a revolution like Tunisia, maybe we can have freedom, justice, honor and human dignity. Today, one of these four has died, and I saw people commenting and saying,
"May God forgive him. He committed a sin and killed himself for nothing. "

People, have some shame.

I posted that I, a girl, am going down to Tahrir Square, and I will stand alone. And I'll hold up a banner . . .


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