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May 22, 2012

How Egyptians Will Vote

By Michele Dunne

Predictions that Egyptians will head to the presidential poll in large numbers on May 23 and 24 are firm and consistent, but forecasts of how they will vote diverge significantly.

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May 22, 2012

SCAF’s Plan to Clarify Presidential Powers Leads to Confusion and Alarm

By Mara Revkin and Tarek Radwan

With the ups and downs of unreliable polling data, it is no surprise that observers of Egypt’s landmark presidential election have been fixating on the near-term competition between the presidential candidates. What remains in question is the legal and constitutional framework in which the next president will operate. A bold decision by the Supreme Council […]

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May 22, 2012

Top News: Egypt Allows International Monitors to Begin Work

By Tarek Radwan

Egyptian authorities have finally allowed observers of this week’s presidential election to start work, monitoring groups said on Tuesday, too late for them to draw a full picture of Egypt’s first genuine leadership contest. Many international monitors arrived in April but waited weeks for the necessary paperwork, forcing them to miss most of an election […]

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May 22, 2012

Egyptians Asked for Change … But Are They Ready for It?

By Hoda Youssef

Nothing expresses a desire for change more powerfully than a revolution. The word “revolution” itself has always been synonymous with fundamental shifts and processes of change. In politics, “revolution” refers to an upheaval in which the incumbent government or system is replaced, but it also has an equally important significance in sociology, where it refers […]

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May 22, 2012

Views from the Brotherhood on the Eve of Egypt’s Presidential Election

By Michele Dunne

In conversations with several Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and Muslim Brotherhood activists in Cairo over the last few days, I was struck by two dominant attitudes: A calm confidence that Egypt’s future lies in the Brotherhood’s hands combined with concern that electoral victory might yet slip through their fingers.  The news that candidate Mohammad […]

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May 21, 2012

The Presidential Election: Last Battle of the Egyptian Revolution / الانتخابات الرئاسية: المعركة الأخيرة للثورة في مصر

By Haitham Tabei

A few days before Egypt’s first presidential election since the January 25 revolution, Egyptian voters are feeling tremendous confusion toward the eleven candidates vying to succeed former president Hosni Mubarak, overthrown by the popular uprising fifteen months ago. But activists and observers here in Cairo fear that this election will restore the former regime to […]

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May 21, 2012

Top News: Brotherhood Shows Determination as Campaign Period Ends

By Tarek Radwan

Brotherhood supporters seem unfazed by surveys that show their unfancied contender trailing rivals who entered the race earlier and are spending heavily in the dash for votes. To prove its electoral clout, the Brotherhood organized what it said was a 760 km (470 mile) human chain of supporters across Egypt on Thursday.

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May 21, 2012

A Tilt in Egypt’s Presidential Race: Morsy and Shafiq Up, Aboul Fotouh and Moussa Down

By Michele Dunne

There has been a rather stunning reversal of fortunes over the last week in the coming presidential race.  Amr Moussa and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, the two candidates considered front runners for some time now, seem to have lost ground due partly to their televised debate on May 10. 

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May 18, 2012

Is Egypt’s Presidential Election for Sale?

By Hoda Youssef

With presidential elections already in progress for Egyptians abroad, and only a few days remaining for those voting in Egypt, many citizens are concerned about the role money may play in shaping the results of the first post-revolution elections. This is a legitimate fear, given that the use of money in politics, known as political […]

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May 17, 2012

Will the Egyptian Presidential Election be Free and Fair?

By Michele Dunne

Riding around Cairo, electoral posters are in view everywhere but not in superabundance.  From Freedom and Justice candidate Mohammed Morsy’s red posters pronouncing that “renaissance is the will of the people” (a rather clever attempt linking a 2011 revolutionary slogan to the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Renaissance Project”), to Amr Moussa’s “Egypt needs the work of every […]