Egypt prepares for elections

Activists who protested the rule of former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and former members of his regime launch campaigns ahead of a Nov. 28 vote — the first of six stages of parliamentary voting and the first election since Mubarak’s ouster

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Nov. 14, 2011

A worker hangs a banner ahead of parliamentary elections while an unidentified candidate talks on his mobile phone in Cairo. A top Egyptian court on Monday overturned a decision barring members of President Hosni Mubarak's former party from standing in a parliamentary election that starts later this month, a move that was cheered by supporters of the now disbanded party.

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Nov. 8, 2011

Activist Gamila Ismail, a candidate for Egyptian parliament elections, chats with people at a coffee shop in Cairo as she begins her campaign for Egypt's first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak's ouster, scheduled to begin Nov. 28.

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May 18, 2011

Supporters attend a Muslim Brotherhood electoral rally in the Munib neighborhood of Cairo. Fears that Egypt's ruling generals are working to perpetuate their control has sent political parties and activists into a furor, threatening a "second revolution" as relations between the generals and the country's political forces, including groups that engineered Hosni Mubarak's ouster, hit a new low less than four weeks ahead of a key election.

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Oct. 27, 2011

A man walks past a wall with graffiti supporting Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) in downtown Cairo. Posters calling for the head of Egypt's military council to run for president appeared around central Cairo on Wednesday, alarming activists who said associates of deposed president Hosni Mubarak are behind the campaign. They portrayed a smiling Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, who became Egyptian leader after the armed forces sided with an uprising that overthrew Mubarak on Feb. 11. Army officers have denied the armed forces would field a presidential candidate.

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Nov. 14, 2011

Atef Hammam greets with one of the competitive candidates for an independent seat in Egypt's next parliament, in Cairo. Hammam hopes to win a seat in the next parliament despite his past as a member of Mubarak's National Democratic Party.

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Nov. 14, 2011

Atef Hammam sits inside a storefront turned campaign office in Manshiyat Nasser, a poor district of Cairo. Hammam, a former member of Hosni Mubarak's now dissolved National Democratic Party hopes to win a seat in the next parliament.

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Nov. 14, 2011

A mural outside Essam Sharif's coffee shop contains portraits of people who were killed during the Egyptian revolution in Cairo.

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Nov. 14, 2011

Election banners hang near buses ahead of parliamentary elections in Cairo. A top Egyptian court on Monday overturned a decision barring members of President Hosni Mubarak's former party from standing in a parliamentary election that starts later this month.

Asmaa Waguih / Reuters

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