Abstract
When the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) gained eighty-eight parliament seats in 2005, it was a political earthquake that left the Egyptian political system polarized between the corrupt NDP and the elite MB. Sadly, the Egyptian people remain sandwiched between them with no help from the weak, secular opposition parties. This polarization has raised concerns among Egyptians about the future of democratization, because the NDP has failed to deliver genuine political reform and the MB has failed to clarify its ambiguous agenda.
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Khalil Magdi, “Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and Political Power: Would Democracy Survive?,” Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA), vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2006), 44–52, 48.
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Arafat, A.AD. (2009). Is Islam the Solution?. In: Hosni Mubarak and the Future of Democracy in Egypt. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137067531_11
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