Egypt Activist

Mahmoud Abu Zeid (Shawkan)

محمود أبو زيد (شوكان)

Activist In opposition Independent Verified

Egyptian photojournalist who covered the 2013 Rabaa massacre and was imprisoned for five years on charges related to the protests. Awarded the UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize while still in prison; released 2019 but continued to face travel and probation restrictions.

Country: Egypt
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Activist

Position

No party affiliation or source documents on file yet, so no individual position is assigned.

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). Mahmoud Abu Zeid (Shawkan) [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/shawkan

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Mahmoud Abu Zeid (Shawkan)." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/shawkan.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-shawkan,
  title     = {{Mahmoud Abu Zeid (Shawkan)}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/shawkan},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  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 June 21, 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@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,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 = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

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