How the Muslim Brotherhood Will Win
By Shadi Hamid | The Middle East Channel The performance of the Islamist party Ennahda in the October 23 Tunisian elections, in which it won 41.5 percent of the seats, has refocused attention on the upcoming Egyptian elections scheduled to begin on November 28. Some analysts have minimized the Muslim…
Fear and Loathing in Cairo
Via International Institute for Strategic Studies Nine months after its revolution and weeks before its first post-Mubarak election, Egypt’s politics are deeply unsettled. No observer can miss the many fissures, apprehensions and great frustrations of its people today. I went to Saint Mark’s, Cairo’s main Coptic Cathedral on Sunday in…
Brotherhood, Salafis and Sufis wage electronic war ahead of elections
By Osama el-Mahdy and Hany ElWaziry, via Almasry Alyoum Facebook has turned into an electronic battlefield for the Muslim Brotherhood, Salafis and Sufis campaigning for seats in the upcoming parliamentary elections, as they increasingly criticize each other and promote their own candidates on the popular social network. Sufis have quoted…
Egypt’s Facebook revolution faces identity crisis – The Washington Post
Each night during the revolution in Tahrir Square, after the skirmishes, we talked with other youths and among ourselves,” said Kamal Samir Fargallah, 38, a business consultant, whose first act after the revolution was to create a Facebook group, as he had seen other groups do, calling for reform in…
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