Waleed Rashed

‘’’Waleed Rashed’’’ (Arabic وليد راشد born November 15, 1983 in El Sharkia, Egypt) is one of the co-founders of the April 6 Youth Movement and a prominent participant in the anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Egypt in 2011. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waleed_rashed.jpg The April 6 Movement has become among the most important organizers of the 18-day peaceful uprising that culminated in President Hosni Mubarak's departure on February 11, 2011. Rashed is the spokesperson for the April 6 Movement and was the organizer of the April 6, 2008 Youth Movement protest in Alexandria where he and 14 members of the movement were arrested.

Career

Rashed is a banker. Rashed has traveled to Algeria, USA , Greece , United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Bahrain, Qatar and Lebanon and has been arrested several times by the Egyptian police for his political activism.Since 2005 was a member of the Kafaya movement, also known as the [[Egyptian Movement]

From 2009-2010, he worked in Qatar, where he was the coordinator of the National Association of Change and organized the Egyptians in the area to support the change of regime.

Rashed is the spokesperson for the April 6 Movement and was the organizer of the April 6, 2008 Youth Movement protest in Alexandria where he and 14 members of the movement were arrested.

Waleed is a college graduate in commerce and is continuing his studies in Political Science. He speaks globally on behalf of the April 6 Movement.

In the words of Waleed Rashed, of the April 6th Youth Movement that helped organise the 25 January protests, ‘Tunis is the force that pushed Egypt, but what Egypt did will be the force that will push the world

“If we put on more pressure, we will get more results,” says Waleed Rashed of the April 6 Youth Movement, an organization that started as a Facebook group in 2008 and became one of the instigators of the Egyptian revolution. “We want to always remind the military and the government that we are here and we are following them day by day.”