Dalia Ziada

Dalia Ziada (in Arabic: داليا زيادة; born 2 January 1982) is an Egyptian writer and human rights activist. She is the author of The Curious Case of the Three-Legged Wolf - Egypt: Military, Islamism, and Liberal Democracy and other books on Middle East politics as well as an active blogger. She is the Chairperson of the Liberal Democracy Institute, and executive director of MEEM Center for Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean Studies. Ziada was very involved in the civil society movement that initiated Egypt's 2011 revolution against the Mubarak regime and demonstrated in the streets. She was also one of the founders of the Eladl Party(Justice). For these activities she was named by CNN as one of eight agents of change in the Middle East, and by The Daily Beast as one of the most fearless women in the world. Robin Wright, who wrote about her, called Ziada a leading member of the "pink hijab generation, young women committed to their faith, firm in their femininity, and resolute about their rights".