Noha Atef

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Noha Atef at the Re: publica 2011 in Berlin

Noha Atef (* 1985 in Egypt , Arabic نهى عاطف) is an Egyptian political blogger and journalist who campaigns against torture and oppression in her home country.

Life

Noha Atef grew up in the Egyptian capital Cairo . Around 2001, the devout Muslim woman decided against the will of her parents to wear the headscarf , which is often required in Islam as headgear for women , in order to express that she could freely dispose of her body. Today she lives in Birmingham, England .

Blog

In 2006, following a report on torture of women in Egyptian police stations, she began to document, denounce and make available to other Egyptians on her blog tortureinegypt.net the repression and torture of the Egyptian state against oppositionists as well as the conditions in Egyptian prisons. The blog, which was also supported by others, contained a wiki called Torturepedia . Torture and its perpetrators were named there, sorted geographically. In this context, Atef and her family were threatened several times by the Egyptian state security and interrogated by the police. She lost her job with a European news agency. The blog later received widespread attention in the media and among politically interested people and reached an average of 210,000 monthly views. In Egypt, major media took up the issue, Atef was contacted by victims of torture and the police released individual prisoners after the personal details of alleged torturers were made public. Which served Piggipedia , a collection of perpetrators photos on Flickr .

Print publications

Since 2007 Noha Atef has also worked for newspapers in Egypt and the Arab region. In 2010 she published a collection of stories about a girl growing up in Cairo in Arabic under the title This is what you deserve .

Education and further journalistic activity

In February of the same year, she took part in a ten-day intensive training course for young journalists in Mexico, for which she had been selected in 2009. The main focus was the use of new media in the sense of independent, investigative and network-oriented reporting. The result of their participation was a video against torture in Egypt that was made available on Youtube.

In June 2010 she was invited to Tufts University in Massachusetts to attend an event organized by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict . There she moderated an event on the subject of “Citizen Journalism and Digital Resistance”.

The following September she began studying social media at the University of Birmingham, England . She actively followed the events of the revolution in Egypt in 2011 from England via the Internet. In an interview at the end of January 2011, she emphasized the role of women in the Egyptian revolution and in the political opposition of the years before, denouncing the fact that the Egyptian police shoot at demonstrators, then arrest them and refuse them medical treatment. Injured people in hospitals have been captured and therefore have to rely on the voluntary help of doctors outside medical institutions. These and other aspects of the Egyptian revolution were neglected in the global media. She herself went abroad for training, not on the run, but was taking part in the preparation of a demonstration against Gamal Mubarak in front of his residence in London. When asked what might happen next, she predicted the resignation and a heart attack of President Hosni Mubarak . Both happened.

Re: publica in Berlin 2011

Noha Atef was one of the speakers at the Re: publica 2011 conference in Berlin's Friedrichstadtpalast . In the discussion about whether social networks and blogs had driven the revolution in Egypt, whether one could speak of a “Facebook revolution”, she took the position that this was the case. Videos on YouTube would have informed the population, who are already familiar with the Internet and social networks, of the regime's violence. Facebook , Twitter and Wael Ghonim's website have also contributed.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c The Narco News Bulletin on January 29, 2011: Report on and interview with Noha Atef. Retrieved April 22, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b Profile at Re: publica XI. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2011 ; accessed on April 22, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / re-publica.de
  3. ↑ Time online on April 21, 2011: Female, Muslim, blogger - Interview with Noha Atef and Kübra Gümüsay. Retrieved April 22, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Netzdebatte, blog of the Federal Agency for Civic Education on April 15, 2011: Interview with Noha Atef. Retrieved April 22, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Golem.de on April 15, 2011: Revolution in Egypt - The Net and Propaganda. Retrieved April 22, 2011 .
  6. ↑ a b taz online on February 4, 2011: Two Egyptian women - divorce from Mubarak. Retrieved April 22, 2011 .
  7. ^ The Narco News Bulletin on September 17, 2009: Announcement of the seminar. Retrieved April 22, 2011 .
  8. ^ Report on the 2010 School of Authentic Journalism on February 23, 2010. Accessed April 22, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Video of the event at www.nonviolent-conflict.org/. Retrieved April 22, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Futurezone.at on April 15, 2011. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 5, 2012 ; Retrieved April 22, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / futurezone.at
personal data
SURNAME Atef, Noha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES نهى عاطف (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian political blogger and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Egypt