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A101 — Egypt Parliamentary Elections
Wednesday, 15 April, 2026

This episode is part of the "Authoritarianism 101" project, produced by the American Historical Review for the #AHRSyllbus series. In this episode: Why do elections in authoritarian regimes matter? Historian Mona El-Ghobashy discusses the 2005 general elections in Egypt and the lengths that some voters went to cast their ballot.