A primer on Algeria’s upcoming legislative elections, parliament, candidates, and registered voters.

Parliamentary elections are expected before the end of 2015, but recent legal amendments risk future dissolution of the parliament.

Despite new amendments, Egypt’s revised electoral law falls short of introducing reforms to ensure a fair voter representation and a more pluralistic and accountable political system.

Egypt’s new parliamentary elections law will empower old networks.

The army’s renewed role in Egypt’s domestic affairs raises basic questions about the commercial role of the military, especially the fairness and accountability of its practices.

Egypt’s chronically weak non-Islamist political parties will be tested in crucial elections in 2014. Here is at look at the major players and the flaws holding them back.

The downfall of Egypt’s Islamist president has not led to the separation of religion and state in the country. The reality is quite the opposite: religion is being nationalized.

Egypt’s most prestigious Islamic institution should fight for its autonomy—but stay out of politics.

In the aftershocks of Midan Tahrir, al-Azhar declares its support for democracy, pluralism – and its independence from a government that has long manipulated it.