6 Quotes & Sayings By Wael Ghonim

Wael Ghonim is an Egyptian online activist, blogger, and computer engineer who rose to prominence during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.Ghonim was born in 1981 in Cairo, Egypt. He completed his master's degree in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2007.After the protests in Tahrir Square on 25 January 2011 he became an active participant online organizing demonstrations across Egypt. He faced allegations of treason for his role in the events. He was arrested on 26 January 2011, after he refused to leave Facebook following a court order to do so. He served two months imprisonment before being released due to lack of evidence against him Read more

On 2 September he was arrested again while travelling through Cairo airport on his way back to the United States, and charged with having ties with foreign entities including Al Qaeda. He was released on bail three days later and left Egypt on 11 October 2011.

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The regime's policies, whether intentionally or unintentionally, had engendered a sharp divide between Muslims and Christians, in spite of the fact that generations of Muslims and Coptic Christians had lived together peacefully in the past. The regime was good at utilizing this divide to create a perception that without Mubarak in power, Egyptians would break out into sectarian warfare. As a result, Mubarak managed to market his police state successfully to the international community as the lesser of two evils. Wael Ghonim
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The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will. Wael Ghonim
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I stressed that I did not want to be treated like a hero. I was only one member of the revolutionary masses who had fulfilled his duty towards his country. It was easy to write, rant, and mobilize people using the internet. The real heroes of this revolution were the people who had died and been injured. Wael Ghonim
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Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him. Wael Ghonim
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The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power Wael Ghonim