backed by president mohammad marcy and groups -- as a mohammed marsi and groups. >> personally oversaw the research for this project and twisted my arm into doing this event, so thank you, and also to michelle and samer. i will begin by rolling out the study that was released today. the type line was that egypt is not lost to islamists. non-islamists are increasingly competitive, in certain areas of the country, and should they choose to contest future elections, they are likely to pick up seats on their islamist rivals. before i walk you through that analysis, for those of you who do not follow the situation as closely, background is in which is after the january 25 revolution in 2011 that toppled mubarak, there were parliamentary elections late 2011 and early 2012. that resulted in an islamist- dominated assembly in both the two chambers. subsequently, a court decision dissolved the lower house, and now we were scheduled to have a rerun of elections for the parliament on april 22 of this year. again, there is an issue of the constitutionality of the election law. itn we have those el