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Dalia is a leading Egyptian human rights activist,socio-political analyst and writer championing women’s rights,civil rights and liberal democratisation. She’s been selected byEgypt’s National Council of Women as a member of its ForeignAffairs Committee (2016). Dalia was selected by The DiplomaticCourier as one of the 99 Foreign Policy Leaders under 33 (2013),named by Newsweek for two years in a row (2011-2012) as one ofworld’s most influential and most fearless women, named by CNN asone of the Arab World’s eight agents of change (2012), selected byDaily Beast as one of world’s 17 bravest bloggers (2011). Dalia hasalso received the Tuft University Presidential Award for civil work(2011), and the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Journalist Award forher blog (2010). After Egypt’s 2011 revolution, Dalia co-founded apolitical party and ran for parliament.The Liberal Democracy Institute of Egypt (LDI) was founded inNovember 2014. It’s a youth-led non-profit think tank, with thepurpose to help