Nancy Elshami

Shades of Egypt’s past are coloring the country’s current political scene. With massive popular backing, on July 3, 2013, the Egyptian army ousted...

The year is 1967. Egypt is embroiled in crisis. After years of grand military aspirations, the Egyptian army has been defeated by Israel in a war that has...

As tensions rise in a country divided by ideological differences, the Egyptian judiciary has emerged as a critical player amid the political...

As the dust settles after the first wave of presidential and parliamentary elections in the wake of the Arab Spring, liberal factions have begun to reorganize...

Among the most popular images from Egypt’s parliamentary elections last November were pictures of soldiers helping voters with disabilities at the polling...

The following photoessay from Muftah staff writer, Nancy Elshami, documents demonstrations in Alexandira, Egypt commemorating the second anniversary of the...

On May 23-24, 2012, Egyptians went to the polls to participate in round one of voting to elect the country's first president since the toppling of its...

As Egypt devolves into partisanship and apprehension ahead of the upcoming presidential elections, optimism may seem out of reach.  However, a closer look at...

In Egypt’s post-revolutionary political scene, Islamist forces have predominated. These groups can roughly be split into two main factions: the Muslim...

The violence Egypt has witnessed during the so-called ‘Battle of Port Said’ has grave implications for the trajectory of Egypt’s revolution and the...

(c) 2011 Nancy Elshami Eleven months since the January 25th Egyptian Revolution, demonstrations are still raging throughout the country.  This time,...

During the January 25 Egyptian Revolution, the chant “the people and the army are one hand” was among the most overwhelmingly popular, especially when...

“We won’t go, he must go,” chanted the hundreds of thousands of Egyptians demonstrating in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, following President Hosni Mubarak’s...

In a display of determination and anger, thousands of Egyptians flocked to the streets on January 25, 2011 to participate in what has come to be known as the...

With the May 2011 presidential election fast approaching, Egypt’s ever-fluctuating political scene has made it difficult for analysts to agree upon the...

Nasr October, or the ‘October Victory’, has come to occupy a central role in Egypt’s modern historiography.  The term refers to the War of 1973, when...