Sisi vs Sabahi: This whole thing is boring

Egypt’s presidential elections are right round the corner. By this time next month, barring some sort of miracle, the former head of the Egyptian military, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, will be Egypt’s new president. Three years ago around the same time, some were expecting Egypt’s ‘January 25’ revolutionaries to go to the streets in a second wave of the revolution in order to apply pressure on the then head of the Egyptian military, Hussein Tantawi. But common to all of this is the realization that, actually, the revolutionary ideals of the 25th of January have been put into suspended animation – at least for the overwhelming majority of the population.

The opening of the article. The full text is at Al Arabiya English.