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Time100 Next list: UAE s Sarah Al Amiri, Olivia Rodrigo and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan make the cut

Time magazine has released its Time 100 Next list, highlighting 100 emerging leaders from around the world who are shaping the future. What struck me most was how its members are coping with crisis, writes the publication s editor-in-chief, Edward Felsenthal. Amid a global pandemic, deepening inequality, systemic injustice and existential questions about truth, democracy and the planet itself, the individuals on this year’s list provide clear-eyed hope , as actor, composer and director Lin-Manuel Miranda puts it in his tribute to poet and Time “Everyone on this list is poised to make history,” says Dan Macsai, editorial director of the Time 100 franchise. “And in fact, many already have.”

Time 100 Next list: UAE s Sarah Al Amiri, Olivia Rodrigo and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan make the cut

Time 100 Next list: UAE s Sarah Al Amiri, Olivia Rodrigo and Maitreyi Ramakrishnan make the cut
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Nadeen Ashraf

Nadeen Ashraf was 12 years old when Egypt rose up 10 years ago and forced the ouster of longtime dictator Hosni Mubarak. She is now at the vanguard of what I am convinced is another revolution, this time of women rising up against tyranny of another kind: sexual assault.

From Tahrir Bodyguard to Assault Police: how social media is fighting sexual predators in Egypt

SHARE It was November 2012 – nearly two years after the eruption of mass protests on January 25, 2011 that toppled former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. Soraya Bahgat planned to go to Tahrir Square to demonstrate against his successor, Mohamed Morsi, but changed her mind when she saw footage of a mob of men assaulting a woman, tearing off her clothes. She took action in the only way she felt she could. She started a Twitter account called Tahrir Bodyguard and hundreds of volunteers answered the call to protect female protesters. Fast-forward to July 2020 when university student Nadine Abdel Hamid took to Instagram and Facebook to warn women about sexual predator Ahmed Bassam Zaki. Her post led to the creation of the Assault Police Instagram account, which encouraged others to share their experiences, a movement the media called Egypt’s #MeToo.

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