# Bassem Sabry

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| name                      = Bassem Sabry (باسم صبري)
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| birth_date                = {{birth date|1982|10|25}}
| birth_place               = [Egypt](/source/Egypt)
| death_date                = {{death date and age|2014|04|29|1982|10|25}}
| death_cause               = [Fall from balcony](/source/Falling_(accident))
| death_place               = [Giza](/source/Giza), [Cairo](/source/Cairo)
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| alma_mater                = [Cairo University](/source/Cairo_University)
| occupation                = [Film producer](/source/Film_producer), [journalist](/source/journalist)
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| website                   = http://anarabcitizen.blogspot.com
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'''Bassem Sabry''' ({{langx|ar|باسم صبري}}) 
(25 October 1982 – 29 April 2014) was an Egyptian journalist, [blog](/source/blog)ger, [civil rights](/source/civil_rights) campaigner who had reported extensively on the [Egyptian Revolution](/source/Egyptian_Crisis_(2011%E2%80%93present)) 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](/source/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](/source/Falling_(accident)) 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](/source/The_Guardian) |publisher=[Guardian News & Media Limited](/source/Guardian_News_%26_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](/source/Ahram_Online) |date=30 April 2014 |access-date=10 June 2014 |first=Ayat |last=Al-Tawy}}</ref>

==Awards==
*[Free Media Pioneer Award](/source/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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==References==
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==External links==
*[http://timep.org/commentary/farewell-bassem-sabry Farewell, Bassem Sabry]. timep.org

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