Alex Walsh is a postgraduate student at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. His research concerns political Islam and Egyptian constitutional politics, with a special focus on the politics and history of the Gamaa Al-Islamiya.

Elspeth R Carruthers is a graduate student in Arabic literature at SOAS. She focuses on gender in the work of Ahmad Faris Al-Shidyaq, a Lebanese writer of the nineteenth century. She also writes on contemporary Egypt.

The Brotherhood's Selective Memory

[caption id="attachment_55245137" align="alignnone" width="594"] The queue outside a polling station in Cairo during the referendum on the new…