Hamdeen Sabahi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Egyptian journalist
Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1954
Place of Birth: Baltim, Egypt
Profession: politician, journalist
Nationality: Egypt
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
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About Hamdeen Sabahi
- Hamdeen Sabahi (Arabic: ????? ?????? ?amdin ?abahi, IPA: [hæm'de?n s??'b??hi]; born 5 July 1954) is an Egyptian politician, journalist and poet.
- He is currently the leader of the Egyptian Popular Current and a co-leader of the National Salvation Front.
- An opposition activist during the Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak eras, Sabahi was jailed 17 times during their presidencies for political dissidence.
- He was an immediate supporter and participant of the 2011 Egyptian revolution.
- Sabahi entered the 2012 Egyptian presidential race in which he finished third place with 21.5% of the vote trailing the second place candidate Ahmed Shafiq by a margin of 700,000 votes.
- In the 2014 presidential election he was one of just two candidates.
- He ran second with less than 4% of the vote.
- Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was declared the winner after attracting 22 million of the nearly 23 million votes cast.
- Sisi sworn into office as President of Egypt on 8 June 2014. A well known opposition figure, Sabahi ascribes to Nasserism and in 1996 he founded the Nasserist Karama (Dignity) Party.
- Sabahi ran as an independent and not as the Dignity Party's candidate.
- One of the few secular figures without any ties to the regime of Hosni Mubarak, Sabahi has attracted the support of several leading Nasserists.
- Sabahi is running under the slogan "one of us" which highlights his strong ties with the working class and advocates his socialist aspirations.
- Sabahi also gained the support of prominent Egyptian figures including writer and political activist Alaa Al Aswany and director and film-writer Khaled Youssef.
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