The turnout question
Before the turnout of 47.4 percent was officially announced by the Presidential Election Commission last week, there was a seeming anxiety in the quarters of now President-Elect Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. But the announcement…
Before the turnout of 47.4 percent was officially announced by the Presidential Election Commission last week, there was a seeming anxiety in the quarters of now President-Elect Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. But the announcement…
Waiting for a chartered jet at Cairo Airport earlier this month, brothers Mostafa and Mahmoud Bakry schmoozed with a 50-odd crowd of journalists, entertainers, businessmen and campaigners for presidential candidate…
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…
A group of young men in white t-shirts lock hands to form a cordon, keeping dozens of cheering and ululating women away from presidential hopeful Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as he…
With yet another unconventional approach to boost Egypt’s ailing economy, newly elected President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi went for a bike ride early…
The official campaign of the unofficial president elect, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, repudiated an interview published in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida on Thursday evening, which was…
The area of Gamaleyya in Old Cairo was especially elated on the first day of the presidential election, and that’s to be expected — it’s…
Keeping in the spirit of the great deities, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi hasn't been seen in the flesh at a single live event…
After critics of presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi repeatedly highlighted the absence of a public electoral program, a new website for the…
Presidential candidate Abdel Fattah al-Sisi started his television interview Sunday evening on Dream and Al-Nahar channels with a song reference, “Here come…
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