From Tahrir to Sisi: Religion in Revolutionary Egypt
Religious motifs and phrases permeate the culture and social fabric of Egyptian life. It is unsurprising, then, that, both Muslim and Christian traditions...
January 20th, 2016 
Melinda HolmesOur 10 Best Performing Articles of 2015
2015 was an amazing year here at Muftah. We doubled our reach compared to 2014 and nearly quadrupled it compared to 2013. We also had several articles that...
January 4th, 2016 
MuftahIt’s Time for Western Nations to Stop Pretending They Care about Democracy in Egypt
This month, the UN Security Council unanimously decided to appoint Egypt as the head of the UN's Counter-Terrorism Committee, effective January 2016. ...
December 9th, 2015 The Illegally Imprisoned and Forcibly “Disappeared” of Egypt
On a Monday night in early June 2015, twenty-three-year-old Esraa al-Taweel and her two friends, Souhaib Saad and Omar Ali, were out having dinner along...
November 4th, 2015 Can Islamists Moderate the Egyptian State?
A popular argument in favor of democratic form is that, by representing ‘the will of the people’, democracy provides a check on both domestic despotism and...
October 29th, 2015 
Harald Viersen