The ouster of Mohamed Morsi involved a dispute over legitimacy—what gave the Egyptian president the right to remain in power?…
Electoral legitimacy, not religious legitimacy
Egyptian Constitution
Three observations on religion, politics, and the Muslim Brotherhood
In the following essay I would like to offer three observations about the use of religion in politics in Egypt…
Narratives of the Egyptian constitution
In The Myth of Religious Violence, William Cavanaugh argues that the assumption that religion is inherently authoritarian, divisive, and predisposed to irrational…