Elections

Partisans Without Parties

October 28, 2015

By Emad Shahin and Jeff Martini It is tempting to describe Egypt’s parliamentary elections, which started in mid-October and will continue through December 2, as history repeating itself. When the leading party list in 2015 is headed by a former military man and leading official…

Op-Eds

Egypt’s new parliament: control and fragmentation

October 19, 2015

Emad Shahin 19 Oct 2015 12:28 GMT By holding parliamentary elections on October 18, Egypt completes the third and final phase of the roadmap and, presumably, another transition on the road to democracy, as the military-backed regime claims. The new parliament…

Op-Eds

What to expect from Sisi’s presidency

June 15, 2014

If President Sisi wants to see reconciliation and recovery in Egypt, transparency must take priority over reputation and job-security Sworn in as president in a lavish ceremony, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was resolute to convey the image of a strong state…

Talks

MEI: Egypt After the Elections

June 6, 2014

Panelist, “Egypt After the Elections”, The Middle East Institute, Washington DC June 6, 2014.

Briefs

Egypt: The Year of the Elections and Elusive Political Reforms

February 1, 2006

Abstract: The year 2005 was a momentous, yet turbulent one for Egypt. The country witnessed two major elections, presidential and parliamentary, a vibrant movement towards political reform, and a remarkable political mobility. All this came against a background of internal domestic pressures…

Interviews

Egypt Holds First Multi-Candidate Presidential Election

September 7, 2005

Egypt is expected to hold its first multi-candidate presidential election Wednesday, an event that will pose challenge, albeit a fairly moderate one, to President Hosni Mubarak . Mubarak, who has been in power almost a quarter of a century, is being challenged…