In Pictures: Egypt Votes

As voting winds down in Egypt’s second presidential elections in as many years, Jonathan Rashad takes a look back at the days leading up to the presidential elections. With thirteen candidates competing in the 2012 elections, only two presidential candidates are in the running this year, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Nasserist Hamdeen Sabbahi. With Sisi forecast to win the elections, the focus has instead been on voter turnout.  

08. DSC 9413CAIRO, EGYPT – May 22, 2014: Volunteers work at the main headquarters of presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi.
01. DSC 8740CAIRO, EGYPT – May 22, 2014: A man passes by the main headquarters of presidential candidate Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi. 
02. DSC 9655CAIRO, EGYPT – May 22, 2014: Presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi is cheered by supporters as he enters a live television studio.

03. DSC 0686CAIRO, EGYPT – MAY 26: A child waves the Egyptian flag during celebrations by Sisi supporters in the Shubra suburb of Cairo.

 

04. DSC 0241CAIRO, EGYPT – MAY 26: An Egyptian voter puts the ballot paper in the ballot box in a polling station in the Gamaliya suburb of Cairo.
05. DSC 0066CAIRO, EGYPT – MAY 26: An Egyptian military conscript stands outside a polling staying in the Garden City suburb of Cairo on the first day of presidential elections.


06. DSC 0790CAIRO, EGYPT – MAY 26: Poster of presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attached by supporters of Sisi into a baby’s wheel cart outside a polling station in the Shubra suburb of Cairo.

07. DSC 0142CAIRO, EGYPT – MAY 26: Supporter of candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi sit on a coffee shop in the Gamaliya suburb of Cairo with the banner of Sisi in the background.

09. DSC 0749CAIRO, EGYPT – MAY 26: Police conscripts pose for a photo outside a polling station in the Shubra suburb of Cairo.


10. DSC 9804CAIRO, EGYPT – MAY 26: An Egyptian police officer walks through a queue of Egyptian voters on the first day of presidential elections in the Garden City suburb of Cairo.

11. DSC 0691CAIRO, EGYPT – MAY 26: An Egyptian child hold an illustrated photo of Sisi and leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood.


12. DSC 9207CAIRO, EGYPT – May 22, 2014: A home-made tower that holds a banner of presidential candidate Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo near Tahrir Square.

13. DSC 8953CAIRO, EGYPT – May 22, 2014: Banner of presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi in the Ramsis district of Cairo.

14. DSC 9915CAIRO, EGYPT – MAY 26: Egyptian voters check their names in a polling station in the Garden City suburb of Cairo.

Jonathan Rashad is a self-taught documentary photographer who grew up in Cairo and started his career in 2008. He has covered events in Egypt as they have unfolded over the past few years. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanRashad