Alber Saber Ayad (Arabic: ألبير صابر عياد,[1] IPA: [ʔælˈbeːɾ ˈsˤɑːbeɾ ʕæjˈjæːd], also spelled Albert;[2][3][4] born c. 1985) is an Egyptian computer science student and blogger who was arrested on 13 September 2012 on allegations of having shared the YouTube trailer for the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims on his Facebook page.[5][6] While he was raised in a Coptic Christian family, he is now an atheist.[7]