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Esra’a Al Shafei: Creating New Visions of the Middle East

Esra’a Al Shafei is the founder and Executive Director of Mideast Youth, a grassroots, indigenous digital network that leverages the power of new media to facilitate the struggle against oppression in the Middle East and North Africa. She is a recipient of the Berkman Award from Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society for “outstanding contributions to the internet and its impact on society,” and is currently a TED Fellow and an Echoing Green Fellow. Most recently, her project won a ThinkSocial Award for serving as a “powerful model for how social media can be used to address global problems.”