Actually; that is a prime example of where the deletion process is failing - because the only option is "delete or not delete".
That article is a problem; if you read it, it is not a biography, it describes an event. Which, I suspect, is the point the nominator was trying to make.
For a reader, the content is better presented in an article on Women's rights in Egypt (or activism in Egypt) with the title redirected there.
Alternatively there is always Wikinews.