User:Michelle63094/Waleed Rashed

‘’’Waleed Rashed’’’ (Arabic وليد راشد born November 15, 1983 in El Sharkia, Egypt) is one of the co-founders of the April 6 Youth Movement and a prominent participant in the anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Egypt in 2011. Rashed is the spokesperson for the April 6 Movement and was the organizer of the April 6, 2008 Youth Movement protest in Alexandria where he and 14 members of the movement were arrested.

Rashed is a banker who since 2005 has traveled as a member of the Kafaya movement, also known as the Egyptian Movement for Change. In 2009/2010, while working in Qatar, he was the coordinator of the National Association of Change and organized the Egyptians in the area to support the change of regime.