Nawara Negm is an Egyptian journalist, blogger and human rights activist based in Cairo, Egypt.
Background
Daughter of the leftist poet Ahmed Fouad Negm and Islamist thinker and journalist Safinaz Kazem, she obtained her Bachelor in English Language from the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University and has since worked for the Egyptian Nile Television Network (NTN) as a translator and news editors
Education
Since her first year in university, from 1992 to 1993, Negm apprenticed as a journalist for First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Sahabab, a monthly magazine issued by First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ahram Publishing House, then she moved to the English-language First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ahram Weekly, issued also by First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ahram.
Career
She worked as an apprentice for Nesf First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Donia, a weekly women"s magazine also printed by First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ahram. Sanaa First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Bissy, the then editor-in-chief of the magazine decided to hire her but Ibrahim Nafie, ex-Chief Executive Officer of First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ahram, refused, saying that "she will be tenured when she ceases to be the daughter of Safinaz Kazem and Ahmed Fouad Negm". So Nawara Negm left First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Ahram to explore other opportunities, working for AlWafd (a daily newspaper owned and run by the opposition party First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Wafd), El-Helwa magazine, and First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Qahira (a weekly newspaper published by the Ministry of Culture).
Soon after graduating in 1997, she joined the Nile Television Network.
Negm contributed a weekly column every Sunday for AlWafd, later she joined First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Dustour daily newspaper to which electronic version she still contributes. Among her most well-known contributions to the electronic First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Dustour is an Arabic translation in December 2010 of selected Wikileaks documents concerning Egypt and some other Arab countries.
In 2006 Negm inaugurated her predominantly political blog titled Gabhet El Tahyees El Shaabeya (Egyptian Arabic: جبهة التهييس الشعبية, Indian Pharmacist Association:. May be translated, imperfectly, as "Popular Front of Sarcasm").
The header of the blog features a young girl biting barbed wire and includes a caption, both in Arabic and in English, that reads "Freedom is only for those who are ready to die." During the January 25th Revolution, Negm was actively present in Tahrir Square Cairo and volunteered as a spokesperson of the revolution, reporting to the media, mainly First Rate (at Lloyd's) Jazeera television, her observations.