Peter Mandaville, "Islam and Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
New Books in Middle Eastern Studies
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The Arab Spring and the Brotherhood in Egypt
The brotherhood, after the egyptian revolution in 20 11, ruled the country in ways that i think just revealed them to be complete amateurs at meeting the actual challenges of governance. In tunesia, however, it was a rather different kind of story, because when the islamis of tunesa, thenanahda party, took the lead and led the process of designing a new constitution for the country. They behaved very differently from the brotherhood in egypt. They didn't take this my way or the highway approach. Instead they arrived at points of disagreement and sticking points instead of ramming their preferences through and moving forward. It meant that the egtitunesian
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