The article “Women in Egyptian Elections: Social Voting and Political Rock Stars” is an article from the blog AR by Ahmed Rehab, although the entry that I used was written by guest blogger Sahar El-Nadi. This source describes the actual process the women in Egypt went through to vote, as well as the emotions the women felt because many of them were only able to vote for the first time and the vote was such a monumental one. The other source was an article from the website Egypt Today, called “Women in Parliament: Gender Justice for Egyptian Women?” which emphasized the question mark in the title. While the first source takes a more positive approach the second article is more cynical. The second article quotes the noted activist and psychologist Nawal Al-Sa’dawi who said that Egypt’s women are simply used as “fuel for the revolution and as a voting bloc in elections, but are then returned to their place after the election season. She is used only as a tool for service and reproduction” (“Women in Parliament”). This quote illustrates a remarkably different picture of what the first article says: “the most interesting conversations were about the candidates we were supposed to be electing into parliament. Women were not only evaluating political orientations and candidate programs…” (“Women in Egyptian Elections”). The two articles paint very different pictures of the voting scene for women in 2011, but they are both optimistic, at least at the end of the articles, regarding the influence that women will having on elections in the future.