Hani Shukrallah

[3] Shukrallah was born in Cairo,[4] Egypt in 1950 to a Coptic Christian family, and was raised in the city.

He described himself as a "Marxist," but antagonistic of the "dogmatic leftist thinking" that he said marked many of the socialist and communist countries during that period.

Shukrallah attests that the EOHR was largely ignored by the government, opposition parties and factions—including Islamists—and the intellectual elite of Egypt and the organization struggled in documenting human rights violations and ensuring the accuracy of victims' testimonies.

[3] In 2010 Shukrallah launched Ahram Online, an English-language news site published by the Al-Ahram Foundation, and served as its editor-in-chief.

He became a critic of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which took power after Mubarak's ouster in February 2011 and claimed they had intended "to stop the revolution at every juncture."