Egypt's new lower house of parliament has convened its first session just days after completing a historic election that put Islamists in the legislative lead after the fall of former president Hosni Mubarak in February.
One of the new parliament's main jobs will be forming a committee to rewrite the constitution now that a single party no longer dominates the proceedings.
Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh reports from Cairo on the daunting challenges ahead of a parliament that will see real debate for the first time in decades.