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Esra'a Al Shafei

Bahraini activist

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Esra'a Al Shafei (Arabic: إسراء الشافعي, ’Asrā’ ash-Shāfa’ī, pronounced [ʔasraːʔ aʃːafaʔiː]; born 23 July 1986) is a Bahraini civil rights activist, blogger, and the founder and executive director of Majal (Mideast Youth) and its related projects, including CrowdVoice.org. Al Shafei is a senior TED Fellow, an Echoing Green fellow, and has been referred to by CNN reporter George Webster as "An outspoken defender of free speech". She has been featured in Fast Company magazine as one of the "100 Most Creative People in Business." In 2011, The Daily Beast listed Al Shafei as one of the 17 bravest bloggers worldwide. She is also a promoter of music as a means of social change, and founded Mideast Tunes, which is currently the largest platform for underground musicians in the South West Asia (formerly called Middle East) and North Africa.

Quick facts

Born
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Citizenship
Bahrain wd
Occupation
journalist, activist, blogger, businessperson wd
Official website
majal.org wd
Social media
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Awards wd

  • TED Fellow
  • Human rights defenders tulip (2014)
  • BBC 100 Women (2018)

About

In 2008, Al Shafei received the Berkman Award for Internet Innovation from the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in 2008 for "outstanding contributions to the internet and its impact on society." In 2012, she received a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship for her work on the open source platform CrowdVoice.org. She is also the recipient of the Monaco Media Prize, which acknowledges innovative uses of media for the betterment of humanity. In 2014, she was featured in Forbes magazine's "30 Under 30" list of social entrepreneurs making an impact in the world. The World Economic Forum listed her as one of "15 Women Changing the World in 2015."

That same year, she won the "Most Courageous Media" Prize from Free Press Unlimited. Al Shafei was selected as a 2017 Director's Fellow at the MIT Media Lab. In 2018 she was chosen as one of BBC's 100 Women.

Al Shafei was a keynote speaker at Wikimania 2017. In December of the same year, she was appointed to the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees. In January 2023,…

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When was Esra'a Al Shafei born?
Esra'a Al Shafei was born on 23 July 1986.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Esra'a Al Shafei · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. Wikidata item Q16231540 · CC0 1.0
  3. Image: Esra'a Al Shafei avatar.png by Takasakiyama (Public domain)

Last updated · facts checked 7 November 2026

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