Egyptian-Americans mourn relatives lost in recent clashes

Americans acknowledge lost friends and family using social media

Storified by AJAMStream· Thu, Aug 15 2013 13:57:17

I found my beautiful brother, killed by #Egypt police in #Rabaa, now alive with our lord smiling. #scaf http://pic.twitter.com/SXKYRZVrOZAhmed Bedier

Help. My brother Amir Bedier was shot and killed by Egyptian police yesterday in Rabaa, now they will not release the body without "natural death" as cause of death certificate. They want to hide their crimes. If you know any journalist in Egypt get this news to them. His body is in masjid Al-Iman on Makram Obeid Street Madinet Nasr

:(--- My neighbour got killed today at his shop. For no reason ! He is veryyyy quiet and peaceful. He owns 2 shops at haram street, he sells mobile phones and tablets only and they just killed him for no apparent reason, masara2oush 7aga 7atta ! He lives with his brother alone in Egypt ; most of his relatives lives in France and his family (father , mother and sister) left to USA almost 5 years ago but he stayed here cause he didn't get the visa.Marina Mahfouz

One Facebook user shared the names of some of those in media who have died in the past two days of violence in Egypt.

<div><pens down in honour of our colleagues in Egypt><br> <br> Killed:<br> Habiba Abdel Aziz (26). XPress, Gulf News.<br> Michael Dean (62). Sky News....<br> <br> Injured:<br> Hamada Elrasam<br> Mostafa Elshimy<br> Iman Helal<br> Ahmed Naggar<br> Ahmed Tarana<br> Asma Waguih<br> <br> [pic: Habiba Adel Aziz with XPress, also happened to be the daughter of Morsi's media advisor. She was shot dead today. The SMS exchange with her mother is in the UAE's The National, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenational.ae%2Fnews%2Fuae-news%2Fmother-of-uae-reporter-killed-in-egypt-publishes-their-last-sms-exchange&h=CAQH5CNlg&s=1" class="">http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/mother-of-uae-reporter-killed-in-egypt-publishes-their-last-sms-exchange</a>].See more</a></div>Vijay Prashad

Abderrahman Gouda, shot dead today in the massacre, was a dear friend of my friends <a href="https://www.facebook.com/cherif.azzouz.5?directed_target_id=0" class="">Cherif Azzouz</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sarah.alrifaie?directed_target_id=0" class="">Sarah Al Rifaie</a>. He is pictured here with their beloved son Zayn. Along with many others connected to Egypt, my newsfeed today has been filled with the mourning of friends over the loss of loved ones, friends, classmates, fellow activists, and acquaintances. I won't bother to try to find the words to express my anger and grief over this tragedy that did not have to happen and will haunt us for years to come. Instead, I share the articulate reflection of my dear friend <a href="https://www.facebook.com/rahma.bavelaar?directed_target_id=0" class="">Rahma Esther Bavelaar</a>: <br> "All those broken bodies and families that fill my news feed and my mind remind me once again that - no matter what conspiracies are devised and foreign hands are invoked, and no matter what poetic justice some might perceive in the pain of those who hurt them first - the dead and wounded are not "others", they are your neighbors, your cousins, your friends' sons and daughters -they are the fractured, bleeding, struggling Egypt that we must all inhabit, they might have been you when you were young and searching and indolent. If your empathy for the dead is wearing thin, at least pray for Egypt, because she will suffer for their loss."

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Abdullah Sultan, another victim. Asmaa, Sohip, Abdullah and many of the young victims killed in today's massacre are friends of friends. This day will haunt Egypt for a long, long time.

<div>My friend's brother was killed today in Egypt. He was fasting and unarmed. Please pray for him and his family. So sad to see innocent blood shed. </div>

Some of the "terrorists" we purged Egypt of yesterday. Most of them under forty.

These are our martyrs in Iman mosque now. We will never forget them. @gelhaddad #Egypt #Anticoup #ProDemocracy http://pic.twitter.com/Pmtjvh9GbDA.

Some say that bodies of relatives killed in the clashes are not being released to them unless they list the death as "natural causes" or "suicide".

@ahmed_moaziz @gelhaddad my brother is one of the bodies in masjid al-iman . death certificate says natural death as cause. Wht can we do?Ahmed Bedier

See #pt re: govt agency in Egypt won't release the body of a victim shot by police unless the death certificate is fraudulent. #KHALEDSAIDKat Mo

Grieving family: #Egypt authorities won't release son's body killed yesterday unless they sign death certificate from "natural causes".NYkerinDamascus