B M Sabry

Egypt's Liberals and the Elections

While it is important to understand what advantages Islamists had in the elections, it is also important to understand where liberal and secular forces failed. “Panicked” does not even begin to describe the feelings of many of Egypt’s more liberal and secular citizens. The results of the first and second rounds of the nation’s first apparently free parliamentary elections have been nothing but cause for serious existential introspection for the country’s entire liberal ...