Acknowledgements
Special thanks go to Thomas Diez and Thomas Demmelhuber for their constructive comments on an earlier draft of this profile and to all my interviewees at: the Al Ahram Centre, the headquarters of the NDP, Tagammu', Kefaya, AlWasat party and the MB, the American University in Cairo, Cairo University, and others in Cairo for their time and reflections which they shared with me during my fieldwork in Cairo, March 2008. Thanks also go to Haya AlFarra, Kristian Bonnici and Mohamed Zahid for our discussions on this topic.