Noha Mohamed Radwan is an assistant professor of Arabic and comparative literature at the University of California, Davis. An Egyptian-born activist, she spent a week in Tahrir Square in 2011.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.
