Peter Mandaville, "Islam and Politics" (Routledge, 2020)
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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 tunesia, thenanahda party, which did win that country's constitutional election - they behaved very differently from the brotherhood in egypt. They didn't take this my way or the highway approach. Instead, as that as tunisia wrote its new constitution, when they arrived at points of disagreement and sticking points, they would pause and work through the sticking point before moving
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