---
title: "The ‘New Liberals’: can Egypt’s civil opposition save the revolution?"
slug: "the-new-liberals-can-egypts-civil-opposition-save-the-revolution"
post_type: "post"
published_at: "2013-04-15T14:14:41+01:00"
modified_at: "2024-03-13T12:37:31+01:00"
author: "CIHRS"
url: "https://cihrs.org/the-new-liberals-can-egypts-civil-opposition-save-the-revolution/?lang=en"
category:
  - "Opinion Articles"
post_tag:
  - "Moataz El Fegiery"
country:
  - "Egypt"
---

# The ‘New Liberals’: can Egypt’s civil opposition save the revolution?

 [caption id="attachment_6350" align="alignright" width="300"]![](https://cihrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/1300591889-egyptians-vote-in-constitutional-amendments-referendum-_629105-300x224.jpg "1300591889-egyptians-vote-in-constitutional-amendments-referendum-_629105") Kodak Agfa/Flickr[/caption] By Moataz El Fegiery 

The Arab spring came as a golden moment for Egypt’s popular, well-prepared Islamists to establish their political influence in the post-revolutionary political order. Two years after the revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood’s legitimacy crisis sets the floor for non-Islamist political forces to fill the emerging vacuum. To emerge as a powerful electoral coalition, members of the new liberal front will inevitably need to make painful compromises on political and economic issues.

[View the full version of this publication](https://cihrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/PB_155_The_New_Liberals.pdf)

###### [Originally Posted at FRIDE](http://www.fride.org/publication/1121/the-%27new-liberals%27:-can-egypt%27s-civil-opposition-save-the-revolution)