Egypt’s Election All About Image, Almost

by Mariz Tadros | published September 6, 2005

The skies of Cairo are cluttered with strips of cloth daubed in red, blue and green. Hanging in crowded squares and stretching across streets before traffic lights, almost all of the banners proclaim the enthusiastic support of “So-and-So and his family” or “such-and-such shop or hospital” for Husni Mubarak in his quest for a fifth term as president of Egypt.

Investing in Inequality

Education Reform in Egypt

by Marion Wood Dixon
published in MER255

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Popular Social Movements and the Future of Egyptian Politics

by Joel Beinin | published March 10, 2005

Egypt Looks Ahead to Portentous Year

by Mona El-Ghobashy | published February 2, 2005

Not so long ago in Egypt, elections for the parliament, bar association and press syndicate, as well as presidential referenda, were dismissed as mere beautifying accessories for an incorrigibly authoritarian regime. In 2005, several developments promise to accentuate the significance of these once nugatory rituals.

Fahrenheit 9/11 Plays Cairo

by Garay Menicucci | published September 16, 2004

The Trials of Culture

Sex and Security in Egypt

by Scott Long
published in MER230

Session after session, the men stood packed against the cage bars, their eyes furtive behind masks made from torn handkerchiefs or underwear. That and their white jail uniforms gave them a ghostlike look: disincarnate in the sweaty chaos of the courtroom, incarcerated wraiths.

Protests Hint at New Chapter in Egyptian Politics

by Tamir Moustafa | published April 9, 2004

Downveiling

Gender and the Contest Over Culture in Cairo

by Linda Herrera
published in MER219

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Take Them Out of the Ballgame

Egypt's Cultural Players in Crisis

by Samia Mehrez
published in MER219

Economic Reform in Egypt

by Agnieszska Paczynska
published in MER218

Texts Reviewed

Ray Bush, Economic Crisis and the Politics of Reform in Egypt (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999).
Nicholas S. Hopkins and Kirsten Westergaard, eds. Directions of Change in Rural Egypt (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1998).
Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Labor and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions and Economic Restructuring (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997).

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