Gihan Ibrahim
| Gihan Ibrahim | |
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 Gigi Ibrahim.jpg Gihan Ibrahim in May 2011 | |
| Born | 1986/1987 (age 37–38)[1] |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Egyptian |
| 🎓 Alma mater | The American University in Cairo |
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Gihan Ibrahim (also Gigi Ibrahim) is an Egyptian citizen journalist,[1] revolutionary socialist,[2] and activist.[3] During the Egyptian revolution of 2011, she used Twitter to report on events at protests. She became a face of the events in Egypt for much of the Western media, which rarely mentioned her political views. She continued to protest and to use Twitter as a platform through the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, later founding a shoe manufacturing company in Cairo.
Early life and education[edit]
Ibrahim was born in Long Beach, California to Egyptian parents. The family moved back to Egypt when she was 1 year old. After her mother died, her father moved her family back to California when she was 14.[4] Ibrahim graduated Cornelia Connelly High School in 2005[5] and attended Orange Coast College[4] in Anaheim, California[6][7] before transferring to the American University in Cairo[8][9] in 2008, from which she graduated in 2010 with a degree in political science.[4]
Involvement in Egyptian politics[edit]
Ibrahim is a member of the Revolutionary Socialists.[10]:348-349[11] She told Al Jazeera that her political activism began when she started talking to people who were involved in the labour movement, and that her family was uncomfortable with her going to protests.[12] She became involved in the Egyptian revolution of 2011[1][13] as an organizer,[9][10]:309 using social media including Twitter while attending protests[14][15][11] "to spread accurate information and paint a picture at the ground for people who aren't here".[6] Her tweets also helped to document arrests and state violence[16] for human rights groups.[17] In October 2011, she reported that she had been briefly arrested while filming a strike action by public transport workers in Cairo, and was released after agreeing to delete her footage.[18]
By winter of 2012, Ibrahim had more than 30,000 followers on Twitter, and was active in protests against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.[19]
In July 2013, many militants from the revolution chose to leave after the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, but Ibrahim stayed.[20] As of July 2013[update], Ibrahim was living in Nasr City and continued to participate in activism and protests.[21] In August 2013, she was part of a group called the Third Square that met in Sphinx Square in Giza to protest both the military government and the Muslim Brotherhood.[22] In January 2021, she told Jeune Afrique that it was dangerous to protest and to be a journalist who didn't work on behalf of the regime, explaining that "We now live under a dictator worse than Mubarak [...] Any protest is punishable by sanctions. The protest is now being done underground."[20] Her husband went into exile because he wanted to remain a journalist, while she founded a shoe manufacturing company in Cairo.[20]
Reception by Western media[edit]
Ibrahim became a face of the events in Egypt for much of the media,[23] with Judy Woodruff describing her as "a symbol of the uprising" on PBS NewsHour.[24] On The Daily Show, she told Jon Stewart that she initially joined the protests because of a class she took at the American University in Cairo called "Social Mobilization under Authoritarian Regimes."[25]:389 She was featured on the cover of the February 28, 2011 issue of Time magazine,[26] later criticizing the related article in that issue by saying that the West "needs to believe that we could not have [made revolution possible] without their digital toys."[27] Her political views were rarely mentioned in Western media.[23] A February 2011 Frontline episode titled "Gigi's Revolution" examined her relationship with her elite Egyptian family and "her attempts to convince her family of the righteousness of her cause."[28]
References[edit]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ourdan, Rémy (2011-02-21). "Egypte : le "journalisme citoyen" de Mona et Gigi sur Twitter" [Egypt: Mona and Gigi's "citizen journalism" on Twitter]. Le Monde (in français). Retrieved 2021-05-22.
- ↑ Mason, Paul (2013). Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions. London. p. 56. ISBN 978-1-78168-245-6. OCLC 859326591.
I saw the Egyptian revolutionary socialist Gigi Ibrahim (@GSquare86), an iconic figure in the 25 January revolution, speak to London students a few weeks after Mubarak fell.
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- ↑ Snider, Laura (2011-04-06). "Q&A: Gigi Ibrahim on 'Inside the Egyptian Revolution' panel at CWA". Boulder Daily Camera. Retrieved 2021-05-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Sandy, Bennett; Laso, Maria; St. John, Kelly; Bentley, Amy (March 1, 2013). "20 Women to Watch". OC Metro. Archived from the original on May 31, 2015. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Gigi Ibrahim '05". Cornelia Connelly High School. Archived from the original on June 22, 2020. Retrieved May 22, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 6.0 6.1 Rogers, Tony (January 28, 2011). "Citizen Journalist Gigi Ibrahim Uses Tools of the Web to Spread News of Cairo Protests". About.com. Archived from the original on August 26, 2012. Retrieved May 21, 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Anas, Brittany (2011-03-16). "Egyptian activist Gigi Ibrahim to be among CU-Boulder's Conference on World Affairs guests". Boulder Daily Camera. Retrieved 2021-05-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Mackey, Robert (2011-01-27). "Interview With an Egyptian Blogger". The New York Times. Retrieved 2021-05-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Egyptian activist to speak at this year's CWA". University of Colorado Boulder. 2011-03-16. Retrieved 2021-05-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 10.0 10.1 Smet, Brecht De (2015). A Dialectical Pedagogy of Revolt: Gramsci, Vygotsky, and the Egyptian Revolution. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-26266-9. OCLC 900277006.CS1 maint: Date and year (link) Search this book on
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Fleishman, Jeffrey (February 14, 2012). "After revolution in Egypt, women's taste of equality fades". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ↑ Naib, Fatma (February 19, 2011). "Women of the revolution". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2021-05-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Egypt unrest: Alert as mass protests loom". BBC News. 28 January 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ↑ Papacharissi, Zizi (2016-03-03). "Affective publics and structures of storytelling: sentiment, events and mediality". Information, Communication & Society. 19 (3): 7. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2015.1109697. ISSN 1369-118X.
- ↑ Allen, Bennett (April 4, 2011). "Citizen Journalism: Life on the Ground at the Egyptian Revolution". Vanity Fair. Retrieved May 22, 2021.
- ↑ Hidalgo, Alonso. "Redes sociales, política y activismo" [Social media, politics and activism] (PDF). Quehacer (in español). Centro de Estudios y Promocion del Desarrollo: 99.
- ↑ England, Phil (May 2011). "A digital revolution in Egypt and beyond". New Internationalist. ISSN 0305-9529.
- ↑ Tarek, Sherif (October 2, 2011). "Activist Gigi Ibrahim to keep filming drivers' protests despite military arrest". Ahram Online. Retrieved 2021-05-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Woods, Elliott D. (2012). "The Faces of Tahrir Square: Last spring's protests were only the beginning of a much longer struggle". The Virginia Quarterly Review. 88 (1): 98. ISSN 0042-675X. JSTOR 26446367 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Jachmann, Luis (2021-01-25). "Égypte – Gigi Ibrahim: " La contestation se fait désormais dans la clandestinité "" [Egypt - Gigi Ibrahim: "The protest is now done underground"]. Jeune Afrique (in français). Retrieved 2021-05-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Gigi Ibrahim Discusses What Happens Next in Egypt with Tim Pool". Vice News. July 5, 2013. Retrieved 2021-05-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Parvaz, D. (August 23, 2013). "Between Tahrir and Rabaa: The Third Square". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2021-05-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 23.0 23.1 Tufekci, Zeynep (July 2013). ""Not This One": Social Movements, the Attention Economy, and Microcelebrity Networked Activism". American Behavioral Scientist. 57 (7): 858–859. doi:10.1177/0002764213479369. ISSN 0002-7642.
- ↑ Hermida, Alfred (2016). Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters. Toronto: Doubleday Canada. pp. 106–109. ISBN 978-0-385-67958-9. OCLC 957224135. Search this book on
- ↑ Anderson, Lisa (2012). "Too Much Information? Political Science, the University, and the Public Sphere". Perspectives on Politics. American Political Science Association. 10 (2): 385–396. doi:10.1017/S1537592712000722. ISSN 1537-5927. JSTOR 41479557 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ Helmy, Dina (February 27, 2011). "Some find Time Magazine cover controversial". American University in Cairo. Retrieved 2021-05-22. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Srinivasan, Ramesh (2017). "5. Taking Back Our Media". Whose Global Village?. New York University Press. p. 221. doi:10.18574/9781479873906-007 (inactive May 22, 2021). ISBN 9781479873906. Search this book on
- ↑ "Gigi's Revolution" (video). PBS Frontline. February 22, 2011. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
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