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@egyptig.org> Date: Jan 16, 2013 5:35 PM Subject: [fellowships-alumni] Shaarawy Abdel-Baki To: "Fellowships-alumni@icann.org" <fellowships-alumni@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.