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With Egypt’s transition to democracy in some doubt, the presidential election is hugely important. But without a new constitution in place, a new battle could be looming on the horizon as the president’s powers are likely to be reduced during his term.
Amr Hamzawy, one of Egypt’s best known liberal members of parliament and one of the founding members of the Carnegie Middle East program, returned to Carnegie to discuss the transition in Egypt and the nature of the political process.
The rapid developments over the past month have shown that legal and constitutional loopholes have the potential to seriously undermine Egypt’s democratic transition.
Will the Muslim Brotherhood’s gamble on al-Shater pay off?
Islamist parties will have a dominant impact on the outcome of Arab transitions, but there is little understanding in Washington of what that will mean for governing.
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's decision to abandon its pledge not to run a presidential candidate is a strong indication of the Brotherhood’s conversion to a fully political logic.
Even state journalists are cautiously becoming more critical of the SCAF in their coverage.
Egypt risks following a Turkish model where the military, backed by other key institutions and secular political parties, acts against Islamist movements.
In the year since Egypt's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces drafted and issued its "Constitutional Declaration," the Egyptian political process has followed no consistent political logic. The revolution has made Egypt a country where nobody (or everybody) is in charge.
Sinai’s Bedouin have taken up increasingly bold forms of militant resistance since Egypt's uprisings. What is behind this conflict—and how should it be addressed?
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