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 the post-Arab Spring Egypt to achieve liberaldemocracy. This is done by promoting human rights, civil liberties,and individual freedom as the basis for a democratic state. For LDI“Liberal Democracy” is much more than the mere practice of citizenselecting government representatives. LDI argues that LiberalDemocracy is the set of collaborative practices and democraticprocedures by government officials and ordinary citizens toguarantee and advance human and civil rights throughconstitutionalism, institutionalisation and civil society.