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"In January 25, a young Egyptian woman known as Facebook Girl tucked her hair under a head scarf, pocketed her cell phone and met up with 20 other young people to march toward the center of Cairo. Soon hundreds, then thousands of others joined them, until 10,000-strong, they surged into Tahrir Square to make history. Over the next 18 days, Esraa Abdel Fattah live-updated on Facebook and tweeted her experiences in the Square&amp;amp;#8212;and the world followed along. &amp;amp;#8220;We feared being arrested or killed,&amp;amp;#8221; recalls Abdel Fattah, 33, a project manager for an Egyptian youth organization, &amp;amp;#8220;but we were achieving the dream of justice and democracy.&amp;amp;#8221; The revolt she helped organize toppled the regime of Egypt&amp;amp;#8217;s Hosni Mubarak&amp;amp;#8212;and marked a high point of the Arab Spring. But this was hardly her first brush with activism. She earned her nickname in 2008, when the Facebook group she started to support a textile workers&amp;amp;#8217; strike attracted 74,000 followers and ultimately landed her in jail. Today, the gutsy Abdel Fattah is working to ensure that women keep their rights in the new Egypt; she&amp;amp;#8217;s founded a nonprofit to train women to become political leaders, and she plans to run for parliament herself. &amp;amp;#8220;My time in jail taught me you should bear any pain to achieve what you believe in,&amp;amp;#8221; she says. &amp;amp;#8220;Then nothing&amp;amp;#8212;nothing&amp;amp;#8212;will stop you.&amp;amp;#8221; How to Help For the fifth year, Glamour&amp;amp;#8217;s Women of the Year Fund initiative is raising money for extraordinary charities. Thanks to the generosity of readers like you, the Fund has educated girls at risk of becoming child brides in Yemen and provided counseling for Uganda&amp;amp;#8217;s ex-child soldiers. In 2011, Glamour is working with Vital Voices, a nonprofit that trains global women leaders, to distribute funds&amp;amp;#8212;including a generous kickoff donation from the Jenzabar Foundation&amp;amp;#8212;that will go directly to programs that support Abdel Fattah&amp;amp;#8217;s efforts to maintain women&amp;amp;#8217;s full rights in post-Mubarak Egypt. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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