Seen in isolation, elections cannot provide Egyptians with the
much-needed transformation they went out for in January 2011. Luckily,
elections seem to be happening in parallel with other forms of political
participation, including continued strikes, protests, public-campaigns, and the
rise of community and workplace organizations. The challenge for Egypt's
transformation now is to build bridges between emerging institutional politics
as expressed in elections, and the extra-institutional politics of the street
and the workplace.