I had a chance to talk with Shadi Hamid of the Brookings Institution this morning at a cafe in Cairo about today’s news. Unofficial election results put the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mohammed Mursi in first place. And the ex-Mubarak era minister and retired air force general, Ahmed Shafiq took second place. The two will face off in a second and final round of voting in mid-June. Here is Shadi making sense of it all.
