Evergreen Ship Captain Isn't Marwa Elselehdar

Posts are widely circulating on social media claim that Marwa Elselehdar is the Evergreen ship captain currently stuck in the Suez Canal. Users claim that Marwa is the first Arab Egyptian woman to work as a container tanker captain. Claims she entered history by closing the Suez Canal and paralyzing international shipping by disrupting the course of hundreds of ships,” thereby resulting in oil prices increasing by 5% and material losses of 400 million dollars. Users shared the claim with an image from the Arab News website of the female captain with the headline “Cargo ship crashes into Suez Canal. Arab Llyod, captain, involved in the incident,” as seen below.