Democratic Turkey Is the Template for Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood |
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| Authors: | TARIQ RAMADAN |
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| Affiliation: | Professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford. His latest book is The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism (Allen Lane). Ramadan is the grandson of Hassan al‐Banna, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928. |
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| Abstract: | The Great Arab Revolt of 2011 has moved swiftly from the peaceful overthrow of autocrats in the nation‐states of Tunisia and Egypt to brutal repression in the tribal societies of Libya, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen. Meanwhile, the wired youth bulge of the Middle East that brought change is dissipating into an impotent diaspora while the organized interests of the old regimes and the once‐suppressed Islamists charge ahead to power. This section examines the revolt, the reaction and the power struggles in its aftermath. |
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