The hopeful underdogs
Driving up to presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s campaign headquarters through the picturesque streets of the upscale fifth settlement neighborhood, we were met by a massive gate of barbed wire…
Driving up to presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s campaign headquarters through the picturesque streets of the upscale fifth settlement neighborhood, we were met by a massive gate of barbed wire…
In the 2012 presidential elections, a little less than 5 million people voted for left-leaning journalist and long-time opposition figure Hamdeen Sabbahi. As he comes back to the polls in 2014 in…
Electoral campaign posters for former Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are abundant in every Egyptian town and city. Unprecedented in its size and scale, this electoral campaign is arguably the…
The spectre of Gamal Abdel Nasser is haunting Egypt’s upcoming presidential election. The election has set up a contest between two candidates who both, in different ways, claim Nasser’s legacy.…
The Presidential Election Commission (PEC) rejected Hamdeen Sabbahi’s appeal against the initial election results and turnout numbers, which give his rival Abdel…
In a video statement released by his campaign on Wednesday, Hamdeen Sabbahi explained that he has decided to stay in the electoral…
The official campaign of presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi announced on Tuesday night that it would withdraw its observers from polling stations on…
Lobna Moneib, secretary of the political relations committee for Sabbahi's campaign told Mada Masr that rumors surrounding Sabbahi's withdrawal from the elections…
Keeping in the spirit of the great deities, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hasn't been seen in the flesh at a single live event…
Unknown assailants attacked the campaign headquarters of presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabbahi in Shibin al-Kom in the Monufiya governorate on Tuesday, according to…
«As the presidential elections began to loom on the horizon, calls for boycotting surfaced among members of the democratic bloc, which championed the 25 January revolution.…»
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