New Dostour Party leader shares her views on future of Egyptian politics

Following her election as head of Egypt’s Dostour Party, Hala Shukrallah sits down with Al-Monitor to talk about political life in Egypt and the role of women in making social change.
Hala Shukrallah, the new president of the Dostour liberal party, speaks during an interview with Reuters in her office at the party's headquarters in Cairo, February 25, 2014. Shukrallah won the elections of the party last Friday to succeed Mohamed ElBaradei, a former U.N. nuclear agency chief, as the party's president. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3FPK1
Hala Shukrallah, the new president of the Dostour Party, speaks in her office at the party's headquarters in Cairo, Feb. 25, 2014. - REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Hala Shukrallah is the first woman to lead a political party in Egypt. On Feb. 21, she won the elections of the Dostour Party with 108 votes, compared to 58 votes for her closest rival, Jamila Ismail.

Al-Monitor interviewed Shukrallah about her role as a woman in political life and her vision of Egypt’s future under the current precarious circumstances in the country.

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