Uprising incomplete

If Arabs used acronyms and abbreviations, Egyptians would be drowning in alphabet soup. With dozens of political parties registered, uniting in a bewildering array of fronts and alliances and then splitting at the last minute as member parties fall out over how to share parliamentary seats, Egyptians will have to navigate their way through a labyrinth of confusing names when they start voting in parliamentary elections on November 28.  As the deadline for nominations loomed, many alliances had still not stabilized and more and more parties decided to stand alone, even at the risk of ending up with few seats. No good opinion polls have come out in recent weeks, but Muslim Brotherhood candidates did perform well in elections for the Doctors’ Syndicate in October, suggesting the movement is still strong in professional middle-class circles. Political fragmentation is only to be expected after the January uprising opened the floodgates to