Shudi Atiya ash-Shafi (Arabic: شهدى عطية الشافعى) was an Egyptian communist theoretician and activist.
Ash-Shafi studied in Britain, and returned to Egypt in 1942 with a Master of Arts degree from Exeter College.
He went on to become director of the House of Scientific Research (a Marxist study centre set up by Iskra) for a period.
After leaving HADITU, ash-Shafi became an active advocate for greater unity in the Egyptian communist movement.
[1] In 1957 a major work by authored by ash-Shafi was published, Tatawarah al-harakah al-wataniyah al-misriyah, 1882-1956 ('Development of the Egyptian Nationalist Movement, 1882-1956').