Gihan Ibrahim (also Gigi Ibrahim) is an Egyptian citizen journalist,[1] revolutionary socialist,[2] and activist.[3] During the Egyptian revolution of 2011, she used Twitter to report on events at protests. She became a face of the events in Egypt for much of the Western media, which rarely mentioned her political views. She continued to protest and to use Twitter as a platform through the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état, later founding a shoe manufacturing company in Cairo.