[ALAC] Shaarawy Abdel-Baki of AFRALO passes

[Carlton Samuels]

My condolences to his family and friends.  He came looking for me at an
ICANN meeting just to offer his personal appreciation for my interventions.
-Carlton

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On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Fouad Bajwa <fouadbajwa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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