Eric Trager is a Middle East analyst and expert on Egyptian politics. He contributed articles to The Weekly Standard covering Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the political landscape under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. He is a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Two years ago, Islamist political posters plastered Giza's impoverished Omraniya neighborhood. But two weeks ago, as Egyptians went to the polls for the seventh time since the 2011 uprising, a military man's banners monopolized the wall space. "Abdel Fatah al-Sisi knows how to fix the country,"…
There is one curious beneficiary of the September 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that cost four American lives: Egypt’s new Muslim Brotherhood government. The attack in Libya and subsequent controversy has almost entirely obscured the siege that same day of the American embassy in…