Shrouk El-Attar is an Egyptian belly dancer, born in 1994 in Alexandria.
Biography
Shrouk El-Attar (Arabic: شروق العطار) is an electronics engineering consultant and a PCB design expert who was born in Egypt and has been living in the United Kingdom as a refugee since 2007. She is an activist for refugee rights in the UK, and for LGBT rights in her native Egypt.
El-Attar performs as a belly dancer in an act called "Dancing Queer", to raise funds for legal defense fees for LGBT people in Egypt, and to help with relocation for those persecuted and at risk because of their gender or sexuality.
El-Attar was one of the women chosen by the BBC in 2018 as one of the 100 Most Influential Women in the World, and was selected by the Institution of Engineering and Technology as a 2021 Young Woman Engineer of the Year. In 2024, she was recognized as one of the Top 5 Electronics Engineering Entrepreneurs in the UK by Electronics Weekly magazine and one of the Top 24 British Role Models in Science, Technology, Mathematics, and Engineering (STEM).
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