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  "en": "Wael Ghonim — Encyclopaedia Britannica"
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  "ar": "مدخل موسوعة بريتانيكا عن وائل غنيم؛ يؤرخ ميلاده في القاهرة في 23 ديسمبر 1980، ويصفه بأنه ناشط ديمقراطي ومهندس حاسوب نظّم حملة التواصل الاجتماعي التي أشعلت مظاهرات 2011 وأطاحت بحسني مبارك، واعتُقل سرًا 11 يومًا.",
  "en": "Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on Wael Ghonim; it dates his birth to 23 December 1980 in Cairo and describes him as a democracy activist and computer engineer who organised the social-media campaign that helped spur the 2011 demonstrations that forced Hosni Mubarak from power, and who was held in secret detention for 11 days."
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  "title": "Wael Ghonim",
  "author": [
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    "given": ""
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  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2011,
     2,
     25
    ]
   ]
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  "publisher": "Encyclopaedia Britannica",
  "URL": "https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wael-Ghonim",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Reference entry read in full on 25 October 2026. It independently corroborates the birth date and place, the Cairo University degree of 2004, the move to Dubai in 2010 as Google's head of marketing for the Middle East and North Africa, the June 2010 creation of the 'We Are All Khaled Said' page, the arrest on 28 January and 11 days of secret detention, the emotional television interview on his release, and the 2012 memoir Revolution 2.0. It names no religion or school for him.",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
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  }
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 "updated": "2026-10-25",
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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