An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link It finally came to light on Monday, February 7, 2011, that Google executive Wael Ghonim was the anonymous "El Shaheeed" -- the one credited for ...

LONG BEACH, California – The recent uprising in Egypt that toppled the country’s long-sitting president, had no leader and no single hero, according to Wael Ghonim, a Google marketing manager in Egypt ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The telephone call from Cairo came late on Thursday, Jan. 27. "I think ...

CAIRO, Egypt — It has now been twelve months since Wael Ghonim—a studious, physically small, prosperous computer engineer living in Dubai and working for Google—became in the public’s mind the symbol ...

But accounts still differ on his status. The Google executive and political activist hasn't been heard from in more than a week. Update at 5:10 p.m. ET: Wael Ghonim, the Google executive and political ...

The world’s most successful online community manager was in Seattle last week, and you probably had no idea. Wael Ghonim, the founding administrator of the Facebook page that one year ago this month ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. In his first interview with English-language media, Wael Ghonim, the ...

This Sunday night, for the first time in more than two weeks, traffic is flowing through Cairo's Tahrir Square. In Egypt, businesses are open, university classes are back in session and a new military ...

Ghonim has even become estranged from many in the revolutionary crowd who named him their symbolic leader. Some think Ghonim took too much credit, while others slam him for not doing enough to oppose ...