Abdel Wahab Al-Meseri

Abdel Wahab Al-Meseri, Leader of Egyptian movement demanding end to Mubarak's rule dies

CAIRO, Egypt - Abdel Wahab Al-Meseri, who led an Egyptian movement demanding an end to President Hosni Mubarak's rule, has died. He was 70.

Hossam Tokan, director of the Palestine Hospital in Cairo, says Al-Meseri died of cancer Wednesday night.
Al-Meseri, a professor at Cairo's Ain Shams University, was elected coordinator of the Egyptian Movement for Change, or Kifaya, in 2007.

He was also considered one of the Arab world's leading experts on Jewish and Israeli affairs.

Over a quarter century, he compiled the eight-volume "Jews, Judaism and Zionism Encyclopedia."

Al-Meseri also published half a dozen books on Zionism and topics related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. He graduated from Colombia and Rutgers universities in the U.S.