Behind Every Great Revolution... is a GREAT WOMAN!

Her calm, spirited and powerful words helped inspire fellow Egyptians to participate in protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square.

Asmaa Mahfouz

(LONDON) - Her name is Asmaa Mahfouz, a 26-year-old Egyptian, a breath of fresh air, a balm to the heart of the oppressed, an inspiration to men and women alike!

Asma recorded her video on January 18th, uploaded it to YouTube, and shared it with the world. Within days, the video went viral within Egypt and beyond.

Quote from her video:

"If you have honour and dignity as a man, come and protect me, and other girls in the protest. if you stay home, you deserve what's being done to you, and you will be guilty before your nation and your people. Go down to the street, send SMSes, post it on the internet, make people aware."

"Whoever says women shouldn't go to the protests because they might get beaten, let him have some honour and manhood and come with me on January 25th" she says in the video, "They don't even have to go to Tahrir Square, just go anywhere and say it: that we are free human beings."

"Sitting home and just following us on news or on Facebook leads to our humiliation -- it leads to my humiliation!"

"As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope."

"I, a girl, am going down to Tahrir Square and I will stand alone and I will hold up a banner, perhaps people will show some honour"

"Do not be afraid," she repeated

Her calm, spirited and powerful words helped inspire fellow Egyptians to participate in protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square, they flocked  by the thousands calling for an end of the 30-year dictatorial regime of Hosni Mubarak.

This young woman has single-handedly managed to devastate decades of hard work of zionist propaganda against Islam and Muslims. Her delicious home-made video is a slap in the face of the zionist Islamophobes who have flooded the world media with their crocodile tears and fake concern for the welfare of Muslim women, as they pretended to help “liberating" them and to "free" them from their "oppressive" faith by organizing “awareness-weeks” suggesting to students on campus “to protest their silence about the oppression of women in Islam”

Wouldn’t it be better to lend an ear and listen to Muslim women themselves to learn from them about “The Oppression of Women in Islam”

With a heart full of love to you Asma, and to all those who carry their souls on the palm of their hands, I salute you, and salute to every man, woman and child who long for true freedom and genuine liberation.

May your courage inspire us all and ignite our souls with the fire of resilience and determination

Nahida Izzat is a Jerusalem-born Palestinian refugee who has lived in exile for over forty two years, after being forced to leave her homeland at the tender age of seven in 1967, during the six-day war. She has a degree in mathematics, but art is one of her favorite pastimes. She loves hand-made things and so makes dolls, cards, and most of her own clothes. She also writes poetry, participates in written dialogues and believes in building bridges, not walls.

She started writing when her friends insisted she should write about her memories, experiences and feelings as a Palestinian.When she did it all came out sounding—she was told—like poetry! So she self-published two books: I Believe in Miracles and Palestine, The True Story.

Her dream is to return back home to a free and liberated Palestine.

If you like poetry and are intrigued by the notion of helping the Palestinian people and learning more, you can purchase Nahida's books, I Believe in Miracles and Palestine, The True Story by visiting:

I Believe in Miracles: a Collection of Palestinian Poems

ISBN 13: 9780954839109 | ISBN 10: 0954839102

£12.99 paperback Nahida Izzat (2004)

You can write to Nahida : nahidaexiledpalestinian@gmail.com