Abstract This article focuses on a common rhetorical referent in Egyptian public imagery and parlance–that of wasat (center) and its derivatives, wasati/wasatiyya (centrist/centrism)–and discusses how it has been appropriated and molded in the sphere of party politics. Inductive in approach, it examines the rhetorical appropriations of the center ground by party officials, revealing not only its popularity as a marker of (ideological) self-positioning but its malleability and contextuality. The article concludes that in Egyptian party politics the center positioning of parties cannot be gauged exclusively from the study of party manifestos and/or expert surveys, but ought to include contextual analysis of how this and other ideological markers are appropriated and given meaning in elite rhetoric.

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我们都是瓦萨蒂云：埃及革命后早期政党政治中心地位的转移之沙

摘要本文重点讨论埃及公共形象和俗语中的常见修辞指称– wasat（中心）及其派生词wasati / wasatiyya（中间派/中心主义），并讨论如何在政党政治领域使用和塑造它。在归纳法上，它研究了党官员对中心地面的修辞占用，不仅揭示了它作为（意识形态）自我定位的标志的受欢迎程度，而且揭示了它的可延展性和情境性。文章得出的结论是，在埃及政党政治中，政党的中心定位不能仅通过对政党宣言和/或专家调查的研究来衡量，而应包括对这种和其他意识形态标志在精英修辞学中是如何适当使用并赋予其含义的背景分析。 。