Waleed Rashed

Activity & 2011 Egyptian revolution

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

Articles & interviews

Speaking events

He continues to address Chapters and events of the business leaders groups YPO (the Young Presidents Organization) and YEO/EO (the Entrepreneurs Organization) across the globe.

He said on his visit to India, to a school, Mallya Aditi International School, that the Nobel Prize didn't mean much to him. What meant a lot to him was the fact that he realized his dream. The dream of a free Egypt.

He said to the children of 9th-12th grade, that he strongly believed in the quote, "They will ignore you. But you will win. They will fight you. But you will win..." This quote carried him throughout the revolution, and to all of us he can say today. He won.

The man loves his country, and carries its new flag everywhere he goes.

To the great people of Egypt, your victory over tyranny and injustice is righteous. Your revolution is righteous. So be joyful, and be proud, for you will one day tell your children, and their children, of what we have collectively achieved as a nation. And work hard to build this country the way we picture it to be. Egypt needs you. Will you be there for her?

It is you, great Egyptians, who are nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and not the April 6th Movement or others. You, and you alone, are the nominees.

It is for the Martyrs of our dreams and hopes. The martyrs of heroism and dignity, the martyrs whom, by their ultimate sacrifice, have accomplished what words cannot describe and the most prestigious of prizes in the world simply cannot measure up to. Your precious souls shall forever live amongst us, reminding us that we have dignity, and that dignity is earned – and that on this land is what makes life worth living. We will, as will our children, recount your heroic tales with pride.,

“We will work hard even if we didn’t get the Nobel prize,” Waleed Rashed, a spokesman for the April 6 group, said in an Internet posting.

Waleed participated in the 2nd United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Summer Course in the University of Lisbon

Interviews & Media

With the message, “If you want change, the revolution begins inside you,” Waleed Rashed joined YPO and WPO members in Johannesburg and Cape Town to exchange ideas on his experience as the founder of the April 6 Youth Movement. He first spoke with members at the 2012 YPO Global Leadership Summit in Singapore.

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“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.”

In his speech regarding the nomination of April 6 for the Nobel Peace Prize, he said to those wishing a better future for their country: dream big – then work on making those dreams come true. It takes hard work – a lot of it. And spare no sweat or blood for it.

Here are a few dreamers who inspired me: Mahatma Gandhi. Martin Luther King. Rosa Parks. Nelson Mandela. They dreamt, for years. They fought for the entirety of their lives. Egyptians, I daresay, are heroes who have dreamt for years and worked tirelessly both in public and underground. And their dream is finally becoming true.

Cairo Activists Use Facebook to Rattle Regime

AL jazeera English / Egypt back to Tahrir Sq

at The APEX awards event in South Africa

at SABC SAfm's Radio with Ashraf Garda South South News / Youth Activists Lead Political Change