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The Muslim Brotherhood: campaigning and complaining
When we got word that Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed el-Beltagy would be campaigning on the northern outskirts of Cairo, in a neighbourhood called Shobra el-Khaima, and that he’d be staging a sit-in at the local police station, visions of classic Egyptian political street battles began filling our heads.
There have already been street clashes between police and Muslim Brotherhood supporters in the run-up to Sunday’s vote for the lower house of parliament.
Instead, we got a chance to see first hand what it looks like when an Islamist movement that has been technically banned since 1954 campaigns in broad daylight, participating vigorously in an electoral process that some of its allies in the opposition have chosen to boycott in the face of crippling gerrymandering.
Working-class Shobra el-Khaima lies in the shadow of a factory’s twin smokestacks.
On Friday, they were pumping streams of dark, grey soot into an otherwise cl
