Egypt’s Sisi Reelected with 97 Percent of Vote
With no serious challenger in the race, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi won a second four-year term last week, winning 21,835,387 votes or 97.08 percent of the total, according to...
Ahmed Shafik
The Egyptian riddle
With presidential elections coming up on March 26, Egypt’s capital is festooned with campaign billboards and posters. That’s an encouraging sight in the Middle East, and yet I sense t...
Op-eds
Egyptians Still Hunger for Democracy
Zagazig, Egypt — The Egyptian protests that began on June 30 and culminated in the toppling of President Mohammed Morsi look a lot like the 2011 uprising that brought an end to the 30-year...
Op-eds
Ansar al Sharia Egypt Releases Founding Statement
Ansar al Sharia Egypt has published its founding statement online. The group says that "preaching and jihad are two wings that are indispensable to the spread of Islam," according to a translatio...
Op-eds
Ayman al Zawahiri’s New Video Messages
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri released a new two-part installment of his video series focusing on Egypt, which was posted on Oct. 24. It seems there was a delay in releasing this installment,...
Op-eds
America’s Future in the Mideast
Thomas Friedman, Elliott Abrams, Walter Russell Mead, and Aaron David Miller advise the next president.
Op-eds
Egypt and the Rule of Law
Last week, Egypt’s administrative court tried to invalidate the assembly charged with drafting the country’s first constitution since protesters overthrew president Hosni Mubarak over...
Op-eds
Oh, Brother
Why Egypt's new Islamist president is keeping the Saudis up at night.
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What’s Next for Egypt?
The Muslim Brotherhood, which won the presidency Saturday, sees itself as a corrective to modern Egyptian life
Op-eds
Islamist’s Win in Egypt Leaves US Uncertain
Egyptians celebrated Sunday the election of their country's first freely elected president - Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who becomes the first Islamist head of state of the Ara...
Op-eds
Compromise is Inevitable in Egypt
Egypt’s historic presidential election will not settle the future of the country in one fell swoop, but it traces the contours of a new regime in which the key political actors may ultimate...
Op-eds
A Little Egyptology
In Egypt over the weekend there was an election, more or less. And a coup — sort of. At least that’s what I took away from a discussion we had here at the...
Op-eds
Two Villages, Two Egyptian Views
SHARQIYYA GOVERNORATE, Egypt—Only nine miles of rutted pavement separates the villages of Mubasher and Edwa, but the ideological division they represent has nearly split Egyptian politics i...
Op-eds
Stay Out of Syria
A response to Clifford D. May.
Op-eds
A Second-Best President for Egypt
This week, Egyptians will elect a president for the first time in their history. Since 1953, the year in which Egypt became a republic, the country’s presidents have been no more than milit...
Op-eds
Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian Army remain aloof from protests
Ever since protests broke out in Egypt on Jan. 25 calling for the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak, much speculation has focused on two groups: the military and the Muslim Brotherhood. Both...