Profiles of the most influential opposition movements, including the Muslim Brotherhood, the recently established National Association for Change, Kifaya, and the April 6 Youth movement.
Egypt’s post-revolutionary environment—and especially its constitutional process—has touched off debates within the country and confusion outside of it regarding the role of the Islamic sharia in the emerging legal and political order.
The rapid developments over the past month have shown that legal and constitutional loopholes have the potential to seriously undermine Egypt’s democratic transition.
Egypt’s protest movement is fractured, loosely connected by ambiguous and undefined demands and slogans. It is mostly made up of a vast multitude of small political parties, protest movements, civil society groups, and informal independent activists, each with its own leadership structure. Attempts to coalesce the protest movement into larger bodies have led to a [...]
With its impressive electoral victory the Muslim Brotherhood must start setting its foreign policy, economic, and cultural priorities. With the Salafis entering the political arena for the first time, the Brotherhood Party may be forced to choose between competing with them for the Islamist base and reassuring non-Islamist political forces at home and abroad.
After Egypt’s first round of elections, the FJP and the Brotherhood have shown a great deal of political acumen in not embracing an alliance with the Salafis. It is crucial that secular parties show equal acumen by cooperating with the FJP.
Early polling in Egypt suggests that Islamist movements are receiving the bulk of the vote, but both the country and the Muslim Brotherhood might be better served by an outcome like Tunisia’s, where Islamists have political strength but must still reach out to others to get anything done.
In a video Q & A, Dr. Hamdi Hassan, a Member of the People’s Assembly representing the Muslim Brotherhood, discusses his the Brotherhood’s decision to participate in the parliamentary elections.
The overall political climate in Egypt and the internal Brotherhood context are likely to sap the group’s organizational and mobilizational capacities and it seems increasingly likely that the Brotherhood will have a weaker showing in the upcoming elections than it did in 2005.
In a video Q & A, Ahmed Maher, co-founder of the April 6 Youth Movement, discusses his movement’s role in Egyptian politics and the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The official campaign platform for 2010 parliamentary elections of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Egyptian political figures discuss the country’s political climate in the lead-up to parliamentary elections on November 28.
The Egyptian parliamentary elections in 2010 and the presidential succession question offer a valuable opportunity to understand the regime’s preferences on striking a balance between stability and the urgent need for reform.
An opposition-wide general boycott is the most effective means for combating the Egyptian regime’s authoritarian tendencies and realizing Egyptians’ hopes for much-needed political change.
Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Essam al-Arian explains the movement’s strategy toward fall 2010 People’s Assembly elections and the 2011 presidential race. The Brotherhood ran 12 candidates in the June 1, 2010 Shura Council elections, none of whom won a seat.
