day after. In fact, Egypt will soon conduct a poll on the new constitution, and parliamentary elections will follow to appoint the MPs for the new Constituent Assembly. Cairo realizes that there are still unsettled affairs between Egypt and Iran, most importantly regarding Iran's relations with the Arab Gulf count

e now rivals. "Salafis are against drafting a constitution. They think it is the Koran," grumbled Merhezia Labidi, the vice chairwoman of Tunisia's Constituent Assembly and a member of Ennanda. Salafis are deepening the divide between Sunni and Shiite Muslims and challenging the "Shiite Crescent," a term coined by

Center for Global Development. Ahram Fierce debates plague final drafts of Egypt's constitution Gamal Essam El-Din 20 Aug 2012 -- The 100-member Constituent Assembly has finished three quarters of the country's new constitution; as it prepares to reconvene post Eid, unresolved issues continue to cause contention

l of Mubarak, however, the Muslim Brotherhood has had a history of overreaching. It tried to stack the first formation of the Constitution-drafting Constituent Assembly with Islamists, only to be met with widespread objections from all non-Islamist constituencies. And it undermined its credibility with a sudden re