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This article asserts the Israel-Gaza war has influenced Egypt’s domestic politics, causing deepening ideological fractures among Egypt’s intellectuals and secular opposition, and restoring the battered image of Egypt’s military as the nation’s ultimate protector.Learning Outcomes
- Broaden knowledge of domestic politics in Egypt and the on-going fight for political reforms.
- Explore how the Israel-Gaza war has repressed internal struggles for secular inclusion in Egypt’s parliamentary system.
- Consider the complexity of Egypt’s intellectual elites, who are divided along multiple fault lines: reformists and revolutionaries, and Islamists and secularists.
