Alaa Abd El-Fattah

Quick Facts

Full Name	Alaa Abd El-Fattah
Occupation	Computer Scientist
Date Of Birth	Nov 18, 1981(1981-11-18)
Age	43
Birthplace	Cairo
Country	Egypt
Birth City	Cairo Governorate
Horoscope	Scorpio

Alaa Abd El-Fattah Biography

Alaa Abd El-Fattah is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on November 18, 1981 in Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt.

Alaa grew up in a family of activists and activism was a constant topic of discussion in his childhood. His father, Ahmed Seif El-Islam Hamad, a human rights attorney who had been arrested in 1983 by State Security Investigations Service officers and tortured and imprisoned for five years, is one of the founders of the Hisham Mubarak Law Center. His mother Laila Soueif, the sister of the novelist and political commentator Ahdaf Soueif, is a professor of mathematics at Cairo University and a political activist. His parents’ activism dates to the days of Anwar Sadat. During a demonstration in 2005 his mother, along with other women, were attacked by Mubarak supporters; Alaa was said to have protected her. One of his sisters is Mona Seif, a founding member of the ‘No Military Trials for Civilians’, a group raising awareness for the civilian detainees summoned by military prosecutors and investigating torture allegations involving military police. His other sister Sanaa Seif is a teenage student that co-founded a newspaper about the Arab spring called ‘Gornal’.

Alaa Abdel Fattah is known for co-founding along with his wife Manal Bahey El- Din Hassan, daughter of activist Bahi El-Din Hassan, the Egyptian blog aggregator Manalaa and Omraneya, the first Arab blog aggregators that did not restrict inclusion based on the content of the blog. In 2005 the Manalaa blog won the Special Reporters Without Borders Award in Deutsche Welle’s Best of Blogs competition. He has supported initiatives that promote citizen journalism on social media and has more than 600,000 people following his personal Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Alaa Abd El-Fattah Net Worth

Alaa Abd El-Fattah is one of the richest Computer Scientist from Egypt. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alaa Abd El-Fattah 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Alaa Ahmed Seif Abd-El Fattah (Arabic: علاء أحمد سيف عبد الفتاح ‎, IPA: [ʕæˈlæːʔ ˈæħmæd ˈseːf ʕæbdelfatˈtæːħ] ; born 18 November 1981), known professionally as Alaa Abd El-Fattah (Arabic: علاء عبد الفتاح ‎), is an Egyptian blogger, software developer and a political activist. He has been active in developing Arabic-language versions of important software and platforms. He was imprisoned in Egypt for allegedly organising a political protest without requesting authorization, though he was released on bail on 23 March 2014. He was rearrested and ordered released on bail again on 15 September 2014, subsequently sentenced to a month of jail in absentia, and received a five years sentence in February 2015, which he was released from in late March 2019. El-Fattah remained subject to a five-year parole period, requiring him to stay at a police station for 12 hours daily, from evening until morning. On 29 September, during the 2019 Egyptian protests, El-Fattah was arrested by the National Security Agency and taken to State Security Prosecution on charges that were unknown as of 29 September 2019.

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Who is Alaa Abd El-Fattah Dating?

According to our records, Alaa Abd El-Fattah married to Manal. As of December 1, 2023, Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s is not dating anyone.

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On 25 December 2011, a judge representing the public prosecutor’s office ordered the release of Alaa Abd El-Fattah to take place the following day. He remained under a travel ban.

Facts & Trivia

Ranked on the list of most popular Computer Scientist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Egypt. Alaa Abd El-Fattah celebrates birthday on November 18 of every year.

During his two-month detention in 2011 his son Khaled was born and during his three-month detention in 2014 his father Ahmed Seif El-Islam Hamad died.