{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2014}} {{Infobox person | name = Bassem Sabry (باسم صبري) | image = | alt = | caption = Bassem Sabry | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1982|10|25}} | birth_place = Egypt | death_date = {{death date and age|2014|04|29|1982|10|25}} | death_cause = Fall from balcony | death_place = Giza, Cairo | other_names = | citizenship = | alma_mater = Cairo University | occupation = Film producer, journalist | years_active = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | website = http://anarabcitizen.blogspot.com }}
'''Bassem Sabry''' ({{langx|ar|باسم صبري}}) (25 October 1982 – 29 April 2014) was an Egyptian journalist, blogger, civil rights campaigner who had reported extensively on the Egyptian Revolution and the founder of COMET which stands for “Conference on marketing, economics and trade”. <ref name=":0">[http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/04/egyptian-blogger-bassem-sabry-dies-2014430122918774191.html Egyptian blogger Bassem Sabry dies – Middle East]. Al Jazeera English. Retrieved on 10 June 2014.</ref><ref>[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/30/bassem-sabry-dead_n_5238521.html Bassem Sabry Dead: Egyptian Blogger And Civil Rights Activist Dies After Fall From Balcony]. Huffingtonpost.com (30 April 2014). Retrieved on 10 June 2014.</ref> <ref>[https://www.vox.com/2014/4/29/5666200/on-bassem-sabry On Bassem Sabry]. Vox (29 April 2014). Retrieved on 10 June 2014.</ref> Al-Monitor eulogized him as being "widely considered to be among the most incisive and respected analysts of the country’s politics."<ref name=r1>{{cite web|url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/04/bassem-sabry-death-mourned.html|title=Al Monitor mourns Bassem Sabry|date=29 April 2014|accessdate=30 April 2014}} </ref> He died on 29 April 2014 at the age of 31 in an ostensible accident after falling from the balcony of a Cairo apartment.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/30/bassem-sabry-egypt-revolution-dies |title=Bassem Sabry, a voice of Egypt's 2011 revolution, dies in accident |date=30 April 2014 |access-date=30 April 2014 |first=Patrick |last=Kingsley |author-link=Patrick Kingsley (journalist) |newspaper=The Guardian |publisher=Guardian News & Media Limited |location=Luxar}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/100159.aspx |title=Prominent Egyptian pro-democracy voice Bassem Sabry dies at 31 |newspaper=Ahram Online |date=30 April 2014 |access-date=10 June 2014 |first=Ayat |last=Al-Tawy}}</ref>
==Awards== *Free Media Pioneer Award (''Al-Monitor''), 2014<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/04/bassem-sabry-remembered-colleagues.html|title=Al-Monitor remembers Bassem Sabry|date=30 April 2014|accessdate=1 May 2014}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://timep.org/commentary/farewell-bassem-sabry Farewell, Bassem Sabry]. timep.org
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