AbdelRahman Mansour
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AbdelRahman Mansour (Arabic: عبد الرحمن منصور; born in 1987) is an internet activist, journalist and human rights defender. In 2011, he came up with the idea of turning Egypt's National Police Day on 25 January into a Facebook event, "Revolution of the Egyptian People", sparking the online campaign for pro-democracy demonstrations that later snowballed into a popular uprising.[1]
AbdelRahman Mansour عبد الرحمن منصور | |
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Born | 1987 (age 36–37) |
Nationality | Egyptian |
Alma mater | Mansoura University (Bachelor of Arts, Journalism Dept.) |
Occupation(s) | Visiting scholar, College of Education |
Years active | 2009–present |
Employer | University of Illinois |
About to start his compulsory military service in early January 2011, just before 25 January revolution, Mansour remained anonymous without announcing his role as the underground Cairo-based administrator of the Facebook page "We are all Khaled Saeed", the main online tool that mobilized the initial mass protests against torture and police brutality, and which culminated weeks later in the ouster of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak, who had ruled the country for the previous three decades.[2] Wael Ghonim, who was living abroad at the time, was the page's publicly known administrator.