Egypt Activist

Ahmed Maher

أحمد ماهر

Activist In opposition Independent Verified

Co-founder of Egypt's April 6 Youth Movement and a central figure in the 2011 Tahrir Square uprising. Sentenced to three years in 2014 for violating the protest law passed by the Sisi government; released in 2017 under a five-year probation that kept him under heavy surveillance and travel restrictions. The April 6 movement was formally outlawed in 2014.

Country: Egypt
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Activist

Position

1 source document on file for Ahmed Maher (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from it; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

Interview English

Ahmed Maher (co-founder, April 6 Youth Movement) — quoted in the Carnegie Endowment April 6 backgrounder: the Tunisian uprising "led us to think about protesting against corruption, poverty and unemployment." The Facebook-era youth movement that helped spark Jan 25, 2011; Maher was later jailed under the protest law.

led us to think about protesting against corruption, poverty and unemployment

11 words original source ↗

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Ahmed Maher [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ahmed-maher-eg

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Ahmed Maher." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ahmed-maher-eg.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-ahmed-maher-eg,
  title     = {{Ahmed Maher}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/ahmed-maher-eg},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.