...Khalil Al-Anani How do Islamist movements perceive citizenship rights, particularly in conservative societies such as the case in the Middle East? This study attempts to answer this question by examining the case of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Conventional wisdom demonstrates that Islamic...

... Arabia Muslim Brotherhood Iran Al Jazeera Media Network The Arab Spring represented a movement that witnessed a series of pro-democracy protests and mass anti-government uprisings that began in Tunisia and propagated across the Arab world, bringing down authoritarian regimes in its sway...

...Ahmed Zaghloul Shalata In the first parliamentary elections after Mr. Mubarak’s overthrow in February 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood’s newly formed Freedom and Justice Party had won nearly half the seats in the People’s Assembly. The Muslim Brotherhood, had, over the two previous years, gained...

... intellectual rivalry that occupied gatherings, publications, and seminars, resembling a fully-fledged war. Differences became evident when Islamists of the Libyan Jammat Islamia Libiyya, now Libya’s Muslim Brotherhood (MB), decided in 1981 to withdraw from the National Front for the Salvation of Libya (NFSL...

... continue as the political representative of the Islamists, particularly in light of the ban on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. * This article is a summary of the book of the same title published in Arabic by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies. CONTACT Ahmed Zaghloul Shalata ahmedzaghloul1...

.... With this issue in mind, this paper focuses on the alteration of cultural perception of the public through the capitalization of perceptual biases. The contribution of European Union policies in the region has served as useful material for the Islamic rhetoric of the ‘Salafi Call’ and the Muslim Brotherhood...

...Jennifer Wilmot Prior to the 2011 Arab uprisings, Islamist parties in most Arab states had been systematically prevented from exercising any meaningful authority in government. Following President Hosni Mubarak's ousting from power in 2011, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MB) established...

... pressure from the opposition. It analyses the experiences, and the constraints, that inhibit the production of a model , and monitors the development of the discourse, its structure, and transformations between advocacy, revolution and the state. Keywords: Muslim Brotherhood; Caliphate; wali al-amr; Shari...

...Hesham Al-Awadi The article examines the Muslim Brotherhood in power in Egypt, 2012–2013, and how they dealt with the multifaceted challenges. The main argument is that the Brotherhood benefited from their past populist legitimacy to fill the vacuum created by the collapse of the Mubarak regime...

... the army and judiciary, the Muslim Brotherhood, and liberals – to collaborate and avoid posing religion and the state as two opposing entities. Having to deal with the Shari'a as the source or reference for legislation need not be a polarizing issue as religion is being dealt with as ‘the dominant culture...

...Mona Farag This paper highlights the Muslim Brotherhood's experience in Egyptian elections since the 1980s with an emphasis on their last attempts during the Hosni Mubarak era in 2010 and in light of their most recent showing in the 2011 elections. This summary reveals how past electoral activities...

...Hesham al-Awadi This article argues that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's policy changes towards the Muslim Brotherhood were based on their ability to effectively challenge the legitimacy of the regime. This rested on the Islamists’ ability to provide social services via a well-organized...

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