[ALAC] Shaarawy Abdel-Baki of AFRALO passes

[JJS]

*Dear Fouad,*
*the comments you forwarded from Amr Elsadr, on the contribution of the
regretted Shaarawy Abdel-Baki to the Egyptian political "renaissance", make
me realize how important the brave action of people in the Maghreb and
Mashrek regions have a bearing on us all, for instance in Europe or the
Americas. A generation or two ago, social activism was mostly circumscribed
to one's own neighbourhood or country, but electronic communications, the
Internet and social networking have turned all of us into the concerned
inhabitants of a global village.*
*To the family of Shaarawy Abdel-Baki, to Egyptians who espoused the cause
he fought for, I send my condolences.*
*Regards,*
*Jean-Jacques.*

2013/1/16 Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com>

> I feel saddened to share this about our colleague, ICANN fellow and AFRALO
> ALS member Ofok's lead Shaarawy from Egypt. My deepest condolences to his
> family and friends. Kindly read below - Fouad
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: "Amr Elsadr" <aelsadr at egyptig.org>
> Date: Jan 16, 2013 5:35 PM
> Subject: [fellowships-alumni] Shaarawy Abdel-Baki
> To: "Fellowships-alumni at icann.org" <fellowships-alumni at icann.org>
> Cc:
>
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > It is with a heavy heart that I convey to you that our friend and
> Fellowship-alumni member, Shaawary Abdel-Baki suffered a fatal heart-attack
> last night. He was pronounced dead in a local hospital in Giza.
> >
> > Over the past two years, Shaarawy had been dedicating all of his
> considerable effort in social and political development of the post-Mubarak
> Egypt. He was was very actively involved in one of the emerging political
> parties, El-dostour (The constitution), in which he was responsible for the
> district of 6th of October, a suburban city outside of Giza. The party he
> was a founding member of is presided by Mohamed Elbaradei, and Shaarawy,
> having been Shaarawy, played a key role in developing a bottom-up
> organizational governance model for this party, which notably has the
> strongest beliefs in human rights and civil liberties amongst the political
> parties in Egypt.
> >
> > Apart from the NGO he chaired (Ofok), which is the only Egyptian-based
> ALS and member of AFRALO, Shaarawy was also a key-figure involved in the
> creation of "Internet Masr", an NGO in Egypt, which is the first of its
> kind in two respects; being dedicated to Internet governance and having a
> true multi-stakeholder model and a bottom-up policy decision-making
> process. We started working on this together following the ICANN San
> Francisco meeting and served together on the Board of Directors. Internet
> Masr is now on its way to becoming the ISOC Chapter of Egypt in no small
> part as a result of Shaarawy's efforts.
> >
> > My deepest condolences to his family, including his brother, Moataz, who
> is also a Fellowship-alumni member and is on this list. His dedication,
> passion and fervor will be sorely missed by so many. No words I can say
> here will ever truly do him justice.
> >
> > Amr.
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