Egypt’s election commission released final numbers from last week’s two-day vote, confirming that Mohammed Morsi will meet Ahmed Shafik in a June runoff. But uncertainty continued to plague the election process, as it remains unclear whether Shaifk will be allowed constitutionally to run. » read more

There had long been clues that a rift between revolutionaries and ordinary Egyptians had always existed and had been fermenting since Mubarak left office. State media, the main source of information for most Egyptians, routinely blamed the state’s growing instability on the revolutionaries. In a nation where many voters had never met a revolutionary, they trusted state media more. » read more

The United States has been preparing for varying degrees of anti-Americanism with the election of a new Egyptian president. So even as the seeming chaos appears to calm, the future of American relations with the new democracy remains uncertain. » read more

Egyptians who stood in Tahrir Square 15 months ago demanding a revolution spent Friday stunned and shattered as the first democratic election here rejected their calls, instead producing a runoff between one candidate who wants an Islamic-based state and another who promises a return to the deposed regime. » read more

In many ways, Kafr el-Meselha is like every other Egyptian community, wrestling with its feelings toward a revolution that has left them both free to live and imprisoned by the hardened life that comes with moving from autocracy to democracy. » read more

All of Egypt’s recent trends — the rise of political Islam, the revolutionary spirit of the young, a wariness of the Muslim Brotherhood and a resurgence of old-regime sympathy — have converged in southern Egypt to chip away at the once-unquestioned authority of tribal leaders. » read more