The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 2
In 1928, a young schoolteacher named Hassan al-Banna was asked to establish the Society of Muslim Brothers. He was quite a visionary who sought Islamic renewal as well as an overthrow of British...
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 3
When my husband, Morgan, and I were moving to Egypt in 1989, we read the Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell. The first book is Justine, after which the protagonist of the Justine Trilogy is named....
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 4
Meanwhile, in 1948, the Brotherhood was banned because of the 1948 assassination of Egypt’s prime minister, Mohamed Pasha. The assassination by a Brotherhood member was thought to be revenge for...
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 5
By the time I arrived in Egypt in 1989, the Brotherhood was steadily gaining seats in Parliament as an Independent Party (the Brotherhood label was forbidden under Mubarak also). Each year the numbers...
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 6
A review by The Historical Novel Society suggested: “ The author of The Cairo Codex shows a surprisingly in-depth, and even prescient, knowledge of modern Egypt and the conflict between the Muslim...
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 7
In spite of Mubarak’s continued efforts to suppress the Brotherhood, including amending the constitution to ban political parties with a religious foundation, the organization continued to gain power....
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 8
I was naïve and deceived by the 2011 Revolution. I thought it was a genuine upsurge, an emergence of the democratic spirit. And, of course it was for those young peoples involved. But two forces really...
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 9
For the moment, let’s journey back to the revolution. From A Rapture of Ravens: Awakening in Taos: “Justine was gripped by deeply unsettling fears for her lover Amir, his leadership role with the youth...
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 10
So, how has labeling the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization affected Egypt? This is my take, as Fareed Zakaria would say. The Brotherhood response to the coup could have been expected. They...
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex-Summary
When I was a child, my mother told me that she was reincarnated from an Egyptian. Later, I taught Egyptian history. Then, in 1989, an invitation came to live and work in Egypt as a State Department...
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 3
When my husband, Morgan, and I were moving to Egypt in 1989, we read the Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell. The first book is Justine, after which the protagonist of the Justine Trilogy is named....
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 4
Meanwhile, in 1948, the Brotherhood was banned because of the 1948 assassination of Egypt’s prime minister, Mohamed Pasha. The assassination by a Brotherhood member was thought to be revenge for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 5
By the time I arrived in Egypt in 1989, the Brotherhood was steadily gaining seats in Parliament as an Independent Party (the Brotherhood label was forbidden under Mubarak also). Each year the numbers...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 6
A review by The Historical Novel Society suggested: “ The author of The Cairo Codex shows a surprisingly in-depth, and even prescient, knowledge of modern Egypt and the conflict between the Muslim...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 7
In spite of Mubarak’s continued efforts to suppress the Brotherhood, including amending the constitution to ban political parties with a religious foundation, the organization continued to gain power....
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 8
I was naïve and deceived by the 2011 Revolution. I thought it was a genuine upsurge, an emergence of the democratic spirit. And, of course it was for those young peoples involved. But two forces really...
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 9
For the moment, let’s journey back to the revolution. From A Rapture of Ravens: Awakening in Taos: “Justine was gripped by deeply unsettling fears for her lover Amir, his leadership role with the youth...
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex 10
So, how has labeling the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization affected Egypt? This is my take, as Fareed Zakaria would say. The Brotherhood response to the coup could have been expected. They...
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The Muslim Brotherhood & The Cairo Codex-Summary
When I was a child, my mother told me that she was reincarnated from an Egyptian. Later, I taught Egyptian history. Then, in 1989, an invitation came to live and work in Egypt as a State Department...
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Hello Leaders—you may have wondered if I had moved to Timbuktu, lost interest in leadership and literature or died. None of these are true. I have been busy, distracted—whatever excuse I can muster to...
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