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Reem Hamed, the Egyptian researcher, has recently made headlines on social media after news of her death in a French city spread. According to her official Facebook account, she had been subjected to numerous surveillance and spying attempts.
Before Her Death: Threats and Surveillance
Prior to her death, Reem Hamed had reportedly shared several posts on Facebook expressing her urgent need to alert relevant authorities in Egypt.
She claimed that she was under surveillance, her devices were hacked, and she was being coerced into silence and not reporting the threats against her.
According to these reports, Hamed mentioned that working under these conditions implicated her in the crimes of those surveilling her.
She alleged that she was being spied on inside her university dorm and that her life was being threatened by the head of the unit where she worked.
It is important to note that the posts in question have since been deleted from Hamed’s Facebook page.
As a result, we cannot independently verify their authenticity at this time.
The Consulate General in Paris has confirmed that it is closely monitoring the death of researcher Reem Hamed. They promptly contacted the French authorities upon learning of the news, and investigations are ongoing to determine the cause of death.
Reem Hamed, the Egyptian researcher, tragically died in France on the same day she returned from Cairo. Before her trip back to France, she confided in her family about facing mental health struggles stemming from mistreatment. During her stay in Egypt, she sought help from a mental health specialist.
Following Her Death: Who Was Reem Hamed?
Reem Hamed was a 29-year-old Egyptian PhD researcher.
She graduated with a degree in Agriculture with a focus on Biotechnology from Cairo University in 2017 and earned a master’s degree in Biotechnology.
She was residing in the French city of Les Olives, living in the Bosquest University dormitory.
Hamed was working on her PhD at the Integrative Cell Biology Institute at Paris University. She had also completed a master’s degree in Genomics and Epigenetics from the same university.
Her research focused on determining whether high-level expression of inflammatory gene factors is a recurring or rare phenotypic pattern in human fibroblasts using RNA sequencing.
Hamed received several awards, including a scholarship for her master’s studies at Paris-Saclay University, and she won first place in the International BioDiversity Info and the Idrissi Scholarship for her master’s studies from Erasmus Mundus.
Egyptians, Arabs, Africans..etc need to stay in their countries as they’ll find nothing but racism and death in colonialist countries. As rosy as it might appear to study abroad, build your life in your country and stop developing the colonisers who will use and abuse you whenever they want. Food for thought.