Two veiled Egyptian women walk past a poster in Arabic that reads, “the freedom and justice party,” on the first day of parliamentary elections in Alexandria, Egypt, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. Shaking off years of political apathy, Egyptians on Monday began voting in their nation’s first parliamentary elections since Hosni Mubarak’s ouster, a giant step toward what many in the country hope will be a democratic Egypt after decades of dictatorship. (AP Photo/Tarek Fawzy)