[ALAC] Shaarawy Abdel-Baki of AFRALO passes

[Sébastien Bachollet]

Sad news indeed.
I associate my condolences to the ones of Fouad.
Cordialement
Sébastien Bachollet
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Le 16/01/13 13:50, « Fouad Bajwa » <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> a écrit :

>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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