SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Sarah Hegazi

1989 - 2020

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Sarah Hegazi (Arabic: سارة حجازي; 1 October 1989 – 14 June 2020), also spelled Hegazy or Higazy, was an Egyptian socialist, writer, and lesbian activist. She was arrested, imprisoned and tortured in Egypt for three months after flying a rainbow flag at a Mashrou' Leila concert in 2017 in Cairo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sarah Hegazi has received more than 421,252 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Sarah Hegazi is the 759th most popular social activist (down from 601st in 2019), the 608th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 541st in 2019) and the 8th most popular Egyptian Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Sarah Hegazi ranks 759 out of 840Before her are Alicia Garza, Leydy Pech, Farhad Fatkullin, Manasi Pradhan, Mukhtar Mai, and Sonita Alizadeh. After her are Aqeela Asifi, Frances Haugen, Nathan Law, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Luisa Neubauer, and Polly Higgins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1989, Sarah Hegazi ranks 572Before her are Valentina Gunina, Olivier Boumal, Jo Kwon, Bronte Barratt, Frederick Lau, and Peaches Geldof. After her are Essaïd Belkalem, Bae Geu-rin, Jen Ledger, Jan Morávek, Hassan Whiteside, and Danny Latza. Among people deceased in 2020, Sarah Hegazi ranks 874Before her are Ebru Timtik, Adam Schlesinger, Clifford Robinson, Tom Forsyth, Eric Verdonk, and Pete Stark. After her are Oscar Cruz, King Von, Mohamed Abarhoun, Tony Hsieh, Miljan Mrdaković, and Hana Kimura.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Sarah Hegazi ranks 608 out of 642Before her are Ahmed Hassan Mahgoub (1993), Ahmed Salah Hosny (1979), Homos (1979), Doaa el-Adl (1979), Sayed Moawad (1979), and Mohamed Shawky (1981). After her are Mohamed Abdel Shafy (1985), Donia Samir Ghanem (1985), Ahmed Alaaeldin (1993), Death of Khaled Mohamed Saeed (1982), Omar Gaber (1992), and Ramadan Sobhi (1997).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Egypt

Among social activists born in Egypt, Sarah Hegazi ranks 8Before her are Abdul Basit 'Abd us-Samad (1927), Huda Sha'arawi (1879), Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed (1872), Maggie Gobran (1949), Aliaa Magda Elmahdy (1991), and Asmaa Mahfouz (1985). After her are Nadeen Ashraf (1998).