
Abdallah Hegazy
Finance major graduate of the University of Washington
Abdallah Y. Hegazy is a 2009 graduate of the University of Washington, Seattle where he majored in Finance. While studying at the UW Business School, he worked as a tutor at the department’s Writing Center. His recent work experiences have been in financial budgeting and analysis. He has a long and abiding interest in politics, literature, and history, particularly that centered around the African diaspora.
Articles by Abdallah Hegazy

Jonas Malheiro Savimbi (1934-2002)
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, Angolan insurgent fighter and longtime leader of The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA),...
January 16th, 2011

Thomas Mboya (Joseph Odhiambo) (1930-1969)
Tom Mboya, born on August 15, 1930 in Kilimambogo, Kenya on a sisal plantation estate, was a Kenyan nationalist, trade...
January 16th, 2011

Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat (1918-1981)
Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, third President of post-independence Egypt (governing from 1970 to 1981), was born of peasant background in the...
January 27th, 2011

Celso Pitta (1946-2009)
Celso Roberto Pitta do Nascimento, São Paulo’s first black mayor, was born to a middle-class couple in Rio de Janeiro,...
February 10th, 2011

Cairo, Egypt (founded ca. 969 C.E.)
Cairo, the current capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Middle East and Africa, has been a major...
February 22nd, 2011

Muammar Al-Qaddafi (1942-2011)
Muammar al-Qaddafi has been Libyan head of state since 1969 and one of the most controversial and divisive leaders in...
March 27th, 2011

Warith Deen Mohammed (b. Wallace Delaney Muhammad) (1933-2008)
Wallace Delaney Muhammad was born on October 30, 1933 to Clara Evans and Elijah Poole in the impoverished Paradise Valley...
May 10th, 2011

Algiers, Algeria (circa 9th century AD- )
Algiers, the capital city of Algeria, lies along the northwestern edge of a large bay in the Mediterranean Sea. The...
August 30th, 2011

Casablanca, Morocco (circa 13th Century)
Casablanca (al-Dar al-Bayda in Arabic; “white house” in English) is Morocco’s center of cultural and commercial activity and one of...
November 12th, 2012