The country's Parliament is holding its first session today. Marc Lynch hopes it will do Egypt some good:
The seating of the Parliament completes an important stage in Egypt's roadmap to a political transition. It hasn't been pretty. It hasn't been easy. It hasn't satisfied everyone. The Islamist victories scared a lot of people. The repeated outbreaks of horrific regime violence undermined its appeal. And the next stage is likely to be just as contentious or more so. But at last, the stage is set to discover whether an elected Parliament can jump start a transition to real democracy in an Egypt which so badly deserves it.
The Dish 