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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Faces an Existential Crisis - New Lines Magazine

Abdelrahman Ayyash, who has just published a new book on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, on the pathology of the group now underground and in exile:

MB members are adrift in various countries of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Conflicts large and miniscule reveal the same deep pathologies that have precipitated an existential crisis of identity, legitimacy and membership for the MB as a whole. The organization’s vision has shrunk from a grand dream of Islamic governance to power struggles over the millions of dollars in the MB’s treasury and matters as trivial as who put the eggplant in the maqlouba.

Also see this interview with Ayyash at Century International.