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Egyptian Elections on Twitter, Far More Interesting Than Egyptian Elections
- Alexandra A. Siegel
The meager voter turnout at Egypt's first parliamentary elections since 2012 has been chalked up to apathy and frustration among Egyptian citizens, but an analysis of 500,000 tweets indicates that citizens’ distrust, exclusion and alienation from Egyptian politics is to blame.

December 4, 2015