In 2011, Nayera Adly Husseiny (M.D.P. ’19) was a student at Cairo University studying economics and political science when demonstrators took to Tahrir Square in the city’s downtown. They were calling for the overthrow of then-President Hosni Mubarak (who would resign the next month) and demanding an end to police brutality, corruption, and similar problems. More than 800 protesters would die during the uprising and several thousand were injured.
Husseiny says witnessing firsthand the differences before and after the successful Egyptian revolt was galvanizing.
“I wanted to give back somehow,” she remembers of the days after the revolution. “My way of doing this was to get into the community and just help, to see whichever institution needed volunteers.”
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