2012 election opinion

In the first round of the 2012 presidential election, more than 39 percent of Egyptians voted for candidates representing neither…

  

I was not hazarding an uneducated guess when I called for holding a democratic election as a first step in…

In a few days, Egypt will officially have a new president. As it stands, the unofficial vote count indicates that…

Political discourse in Egypt at the best of times can be strange and full of empty talk ("kalam fadi"). But…

In August 1966, at the height of the Vietnam War when the United States was embroiled in a deep and…

Since the first round of the presidential election ended, there has been much talk about the emergence of a third…

On 29 May, Egypt Independent, in collaboration with Jadaliyya, hosted a round-table discussion on the Egyptian presidential election. The discussion…

The first round of the Egyptian presidential election resulted in a runoff between Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsy, who won…

All of a sudden, “the man in the pullover,” or Ahmed Shafiq — who is satirically described as such due…