Background , education, and family life Born in 1966 in Cairo Qasr el Nil district, Gameela Ismail studied in Al Gezira Language School in Zamalek, where she currently lives. She graduated in 1986 from the Cairo University Faculty of Mass Communication. After being selected university rover scout crew leader, she distinguished herself in her activities in the students' union throughout the years of study. She obtained a Diploma in Simultaneous Interpretation from the American University in Cairo, and then chose to work in media and journalism as a correspondent for various foreign magazines and papers in Cairo. She moved into Egyptian television, reflecting the realities, pain, and dreams of ordinary people through her work as a presenter in a number of programs reporting from the street. Ismail was formerly married to politicianAyman Nour. They have two sons.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Throughout her career, Ismail has worked as an advocate for human and women's rights, as a television presenter for Egyptian state television, as a stringer for Newsweek, and as a media spokesperson. Career and political Involvement before 2011 In 1994, she began working in local public service through an NGO in downtown Cairo.The residents in Darb el Ahmar, el Mosky, el Gamaliya, Bab el Sha  ’ riya, el Zaher, and Manshiet Nasr repeatedly honored her for her efforts over ten years in providing housing, healthcare, and education services, and in working with local popular committee members to address the neighborhood residents’ problems.  In 2001, she ran for office in the Shura elections running against the majority leader in the ruling party at that time. In 2003, she participated in founding the Al-Ghad (Tomorrow) Party. She served as vice-president of Al-Ghad Party In 2004, she became a member of its high council. In 2005, she led a media campaign for the party's candidate in the presidential elections. In the end of 2005, after her then-husband was sentenced to 5 years in jail, the conflict began to rise over party's leadership between her and Moussa Mostafa Moussa. They both concurrently used party's name and symbols. Conflict was resolved by court in May 2011 in favour of Moussa . From 2004 to 2010, she participated in national struggle to free prisoners of conscience, prisoners of opinion, and political detainees, and participated in campaigns calling for the ousting of Mubarak and for rejecting inherited succession and extension of powers, confronting corruption, defending freedom of opinion and expression. She became an active member in many social protest movements calling for change, along with national currents and powers (Kefaya, Egyptian Women with Change, Madaneya, National Association for Change). In 2010, she ran in parliamentary elections against one of the most important figures in the dissolved National Democratic Party. She challenged him again in 2007. Involvement in the January 25 Revolution In January 2011, she was among those who called for the January 25 Revolution, led marches to Tahrir Square and protested in sit-ins until the fall of Hosni Mubarak's rule.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% In August 2014, Mubarak-era Interior Minister Habib al-Adly accused Ismail and others of " setting police stations ablaze with Molotov cocktails" during the 18-day uprising. After January 25 After the revolution, Ismail founded the Egyptian Women for Change.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% In June 2011, she emerged as one of the most important political analysis program presenters on television, through her weekly program " E 'aadet Nazar" (Reconsideration)  . In November 2011, she ran again in the first post-revolution parliamentary elections, running for an individual seat in the downtown Qasr el Nil district, independent of any party or political current, and won almost 30,000 votes, coming in just 100 votes less than the Freedom and Justice Party and Egyptian Bloc candidates. She claims she received nearly 30,000 votes, coming in less than 100 votes behind the candidates for the Freedom and Justice Party, and those of Egyptian Bloc. In the spring of 2012, she participated in the founding of the Constitution Party(AlDostour Party), founded and led by Dr. Mohamed ElBaradai. She has been a member of the committee of one hundred, leading member in the steering committee, and head of the party ’ s organizing secretariat in April 2013. In March 2013, she directed a message to John Kerry during a meeting with him in Cairo, and which was picked up by the media, requesting him to stop supporting former president Mohamed Morsi, saying, “You want democracy for us in a shape and size defined by the American administration, but we Egyptian people are building democracy on the imagination and dreams of the January 25Revolution, and we will show you that we are capable of revolutionagain. ” In May 2013, she participated in the call for June 30, and led party marches to the Presidential Palace.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% In December 2013, she called for participation in a non-partisan campaign called “Hakkem A'aqlak” (Use your judgment) for citizen awareness-raising on the articles in the constitution, a campaign which was carried out in various Egyptian governorates. In January 2014, she was nominated for the position of Dostour Party president, to succeed Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, heading the list "Elbaquaa' le mann yabny" (Those who build persevere) After a mission building the party, she held an active leadership role from April to December 2013.%DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% From 2011–2014, she has played a prominent role in the struggle to complete the revolution in Egypt, defending its aims and goals through her political action, support and contribution in a number of revolutionary protest movements, a role which continues to date. Ismail's Twitter account, which has 1.6 million followers, comes top among all female politicians in the Arab world and also makes her one of the 10 most-followed politicians in Egypt, along with Dr. Baradie and eight others. Her account is considered to make her one of the most active / influential politicians on social media. In August 2015 she launched an initiative to raise the income of medical doctors in Egypt and called for equal financial rights for the medical and health sector with that of the police, judiciary and army sectors . Awards and recognition In 2011, Gameela Ismail figured among the 150 most influential people across the world according to a Newsweek/Daily Post poll, and one of the top four women in the “ Sisters of the Arab Spring ” on BBC television. In March 2015, she was nominated by CNN Arabic website and received the highest number of votes for most influential Arab female politician . Other candidates included Queen Rania of Jordan and Sheikha Moza of Qatar.
Background Gameela Ismail (6 April 1966 %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% ) is an Egyptian politician, television host, content creator, and co-founder of the online new media platform Medina (www.medinaportal.com) launched in 2016. Medina provides alternative, innovative, artistic, and interactive content in Arabic against hegemonic narratives. Gameela writes, films, narrates, and directs a series of short films on Medina called Hekayat Gameela Gameela ’ s Stories using just her smartphone camera. This has allowed Gameela to pioneer the concept of “personal TV” in the Arab world. In 2017, Gameela’s Stories were given the award for best documentary work empowering women and society by MBC HOPE in Dubai. In 2018, it was a finalist at the WAN-Ifra short films competition in South Africa . Career Gameela has worked in media since her graduation from Cairo University’s Faculty of Communication in 1986. She started her media career with Newsweek’s Cairo bureau as a stringer/translator, then as a correspondent for 20 years. She freelanced with Thomson Reuters, Al-Hayat London daily, the Sunday Times, Cairo Today Magazine, and other publications. In %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% 1990, Gameela started her television career with the Egyptian state broadcaster and presented several award-winning television programs, which were characterised by their unique portrayal of the voices of the young and ordinary people on Egypt’s streets. Gameela hosted the political TV program " %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% E ‘adet Nazar" Reconsideration on the Egyptian channel Al Nahar after the 2011 Egyptian revolution . Political Involvement Gameela ran for parliament in downtown Cairo in 2001, 2010, and 2011. She led numerous political battles and took part in founding movements calling for political change and defying the inheritance of power under Mubarak, then fighting against religious and military rule after 2011. Gameela was among the first to call for the 2011 Egyptian revolution. She participated in founding Al-Ghad (Tomorrow) Party in 2004 and served as the spokesperson for its presidential elections in 2005 in Egypt's first presidential elections. In 2012, she participated in founding AlDostour Party (Constitution Party) and served as the party ’ s organisational secretary in 2013. %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% %DIFDELCMD < %DIFDELCMD < %%% Gameela has been an advocate for justice, diversity, inclusion, social / political reform, freedom of expression, advancing opportunities for women and millennials, protecting the environment, and animal rights . Awards and recognition Gameela has won numerous awards and recognitions. She was named one of the world’s 150 most influential women by Newsweek in 2011 and a “ Sister of the Revolution ” by the BBC in 2012. She was voted the most important and influential Arab politician in a CNN poll in 2015 and was rated 180th out of the 250 most influential women in the world on social media in 2016. Gameela came 39th in a list of the 200 most powerful Arab women by Arabian Business magazine in 2018.
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in Cairo Qasr el Nil district, Gameela Ismail studied in Al Gezira Language School in Zamalek, where she currently lives. She graduated in 1986 from the Cairo University Faculty of Mass Communication. After being selected university rover scout crew leader, she distinguished herself in her activities in the students' union throughout the years of study.
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She obtained a Diploma in Simultaneous Interpretation from the American University in Cairo, and then chose to work in media and journalism as a correspondent for various foreign magazines and papers in Cairo. She moved into Egyptian television, reflecting the realities, pain, and dreams of ordinary people through her work as a presenter in a number of programs reporting from the street. Ismail was formerly married to politicianAyman Nour. They have two sons.
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In 2003, she participated in founding the Al-Ghad (Tomorrow) Party. She served as vice-president of Al-Ghad Party In 2004, she became a member of its high council. In 2005, she led a media campaign for the party's candidate in the presidential elections. In the end of 2005, after her then-husband was sentenced to 5 years in jail, the conflict began to rise over party's leadership between her and Moussa Mostafa Moussa. They both concurrently used party's name and symbols. Conflict was resolved by court in May 2011 in favour of Moussa
2017, Gameela’s Stories were given the award for best documentary work empowering women and society by MBC HOPE in Dubai. In 2018, it was a finalist at the WAN-Ifra short films competition in South Africa
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From 2004 to 2010, she participated in national struggle to free prisoners of conscience, prisoners of opinion, and political detainees, and participated in campaigns calling for the ousting of Mubarak and for rejecting inherited succession and extension of powers, confronting corruption, defending freedom of opinion and expression. She became an active member in many social protest movements calling for change, along with national currents and powers (Kefaya, Egyptian Women with Change, Madaneya, National Association for Change).
Career Gameela has worked in media since her graduation from Cairo University’s Faculty of Communication in 1986. She started her media career with Newsweek’s Cairo bureau as a stringer/translator, then as a correspondent for 20 years. She freelanced with Thomson Reuters, Al-Hayat London daily, the Sunday Times, Cairo Today Magazine, and other publications.
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2010, she ran in parliamentary elections against one of the most important figures in the dissolved National Democratic Party. She challenged him again in 2007.
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In November 2011, she ran again in the first post-revolution parliamentary elections, running for an individual seat in the downtown Qasr el Nil district, independent of any party or political current, and won almost 30,000 votes, coming in just 100 votes less than the Freedom and Justice Party and Egyptian Bloc candidates. She claims she received nearly 30,000 votes, coming in less than 100 votes behind the candidates for the Freedom and Justice Party, and those of Egyptian Bloc.
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In the spring of 2012, she participated in the founding of the Constitution Party(AlDostour Party), founded and led by Dr. Mohamed ElBaradai. She has been a member of the committee of one hundred, leading member in the steering committee, and head of the party
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In March 2013, she directed a message to John Kerry during a meeting with him in Cairo, and which was picked up by the media, requesting him to stop supporting former president Mohamed Morsi, saying, “You want democracy for us in a shape and size defined by the American administration, but we Egyptian people are building democracy on the imagination and dreams of the January 25Revolution, and we will show you that we are capable of revolutionagain. ”
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In May 2013, she participated in the call for June 30, and led party marches to the Presidential Palace.
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In December 2013, she called for participation in a non-partisan campaign called “Hakkem A'aqlak” (Use your judgment) for citizen awareness-raising on the articles in the constitution, a campaign which was carried out in various Egyptian governorates.
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In January 2014, she was nominated for the position of Dostour Party president, to succeed Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei, heading the list "Elbaquaa' le mann yabny" (Those who build persevere) After a mission building the party, she held an active leadership role from April to December 2013.
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From 2011–2014, she has played a prominent role in the struggle to complete the revolution in Egypt, defending its aims and goals through her political action, support and contribution in a number of revolutionary protest movements, a role which continues to date.
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Ismail's Twitter account, which has 1.6 million followers, comes top among all female politicians in the Arab world and also makes her one of the 10 most-followed politicians in Egypt, along with Dr. Baradie and eight others. Her account is considered to make her one of the most active
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In August 2015 she launched an initiative to raise the income of medical doctors in Egypt and called for equal financial rights for the medical and health sector with that of the police, judiciary and army sectors
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In March 2015, she was nominated by CNN Arabic website and received the highest number of votes for most influential Arab female politician . Other candidates included Queen Rania of Jordan and Sheikha Moza of Qatar.
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