On February 21, during al-Ashera Masa`an on Dream TV and before the end of the episode, Dr. Shadi Al-Ghazali Harb wanted to reveal the identity of the second administrator behind the Facebook page ‘We are all Khaled Said' and the person who suggested January 25 should be the day of the Egyptian revolution, but appealed to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to confirm they will not touch this young man or harm him, as he is now serving his mandatory military service, which began on January 17. This young man is Abdulrahman Mansour. The information available in this article about Abdulrahman Mansour and the administrators of the page ‘We are all Khaled Said' is correct and cannot be questioned. The source of this information is one of those responsible for the page, as they have found that now is the best opportunity to reveal Abdulrahman Mansour as the admin of the page, despite his absence during this period. Abdulrahman Mansour, a graduate of the Faculty of Arts at University of Mansoura, met Wael Ghonim, the marketing director for Google in the Middle East through, his work as a journalist for Al-Jazeera. They knew more of each other during the period when Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei returned to Cairo in early 2010. Ghoneim seems to have found the kind of talent in Mansour, which made him use it in the administration of two of the largest Egyptian pages on Facebook, both created by Wael Ghonim: the page of ElBaradei and “We are all Khaled Said.” Ghonim recruited Mansour to be administrator of the Said page three days after creating it, and after several days, possibly several weeks, Ghonim hired Nadine Wahab, an Egyptian activist who promotes the page in Washington, to also administer the page. Dr. Mustafa al-Naggar, General Coordinator of the campaign to support ElBaradei and the demands for change, was not absent from the scene and was among those responsible for the page for several days. Given that he was engaged in other missions, he did not continue to be an admin of the page. During the following months of administration by both Ghonim and Mansour, Wael with his wonderful creative abilities and Abdulrahman with his distinguished political mentality succeeded in making the page what might be called the only influential political party in Egypt. After the calls for taking to the streets wearing black to mourn the brutal death of Khalid Said and after the demonstrations, which spread across Egypt because of the invitations sent to Facebook users by the page, the admins of the page decided to escalate their demands and call for the dismissal of Habib Al-Adly, the former Minister of the Interior. It seems that the escalation of demands became a serious desire by those responsible for the page in the announcement of the mass protests on 10/10/2010, but apparently it was postponed. Mansour suggested that January 25 be declared as a day of the revolution, and at the beginning Ghonim opposed the idea. He wondered if the day of the police was a normal working day in Egypt, but Mansour confirmed that it was in fact a public holiday. Three main demands were announced on the page: the dismissal of al-Adly, dissolving the People's Assembly and Shura Council, and the application of justice in relation to the minimum wage. Before January 25 there was real assistance received by officials of the page, from many activists and actors, lawyers in El Nadim Center for example, activist Ahmed Saleh, activist Wahab, and activist Sally Sami. All are responsible for the success of the page in the performance of its work and by extension the success of the Egyptian revolution. After calls were made for the Revolution Day on January 25, the army summoned Mansour on January 17 to start his military service, and this is what made him absent from the scene in Egypt throughout this period, and prompted Wael and the rest of those responsible for the page to hide Mansour for fear of his being harmed by virtue of his temporary relationship with the military establishment in Egypt. Ghonim even tried during the meeting with officials of the Armed Forces to announce the name of Mansour, however fear of the results of such an announcement overwhelmed Ghonim's desire to show a true inspiration behind the revolution. What must be said at this point is that both Abdulrahman Mansour and Wael Ghonim agreed from the outset not to announce their names at all, except that the arrest of Ghonim and his disappearance forced some of the activists to reveal his identity out of fear for his life. Of course Ghonim's job as a representative of an institution such as Google allowed the whole world to witness the brutality of the Egyptian regime in dealing with its opponents. We also cannot ignore the fact that genuine desire to do their best for Egypt led Wael, Abdulrahman and all participants in the Khaled Said page to hide their names. None of them revealed their identities on any occasion, although there have been attempts by several newspapers to deal with the admins of the page, including an interview by Masrawy website with Mansour without revealing his name. Despite the many problems that have occurred, especially when Facebook removed the page, no one was able to identify the admins of the page, whose members exceeded 300,000. Abdulrahman was also involved in many other activities were he was also keen on being discreet and his full adoption of organized collective action, as he is one of the founders of the Arab Wikileaks Initiative, with activists Youmna Khetam and Ahmed Saleh. Abdulrahman Mansour must be appreciated and honored the way he deserves, so there must be sufficient safeguards to ensure that he would not be subjected to any questioning or interrogations while he is performing his military service with the Egyptian armed forces. As Mansour has a solid political grasp on Egypt and has close relations with the leaders of the Revolution of the Egyptian people, he is also one of them, and by virtue of his presence within the military at this critical stage, all these reasons, the role of Abdulrahman Mansour must have a different role, perhaps as a mediator trusted by the army and among the youth of the revolution. BM
