The Muslim Brotherhood and the Change of the Political System in Egypt

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  • سداد مولود سبع مركز الدراسات الإستراتيجية والدولية/ جامعة بغداد

Keywords:

Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt, Arab Spring

Abstract

Muslim Brotherhood passed a along struggle with the political regime in Egypt, since monarchy through the successive republic regimes.During that period, this group did not hesitate in using all means for surviving and facing ruling regimes' pressures due to its confrontation the ruling regimes .Meanwhile, it sought to change its strategy in dealing with ruling regimes, so this enabled it to stay and penetrate into Egyptian community which have greatly suffered due to restructuring the Egyptian economy. It was a heavy burden on the simple Egyptian citizen.The Arab Spring at first brought considerable success for the Brotherhood. It was come to power in more than one country. In Egypt (search topic), this group is faced by many pressures, particularly their failure in managing some important files. Undoubtedly, this encouraged its opponents to take power and provoke the Egyptian public opinion against it. So, all these matters resulted to their loss of power and the domination of the military. Another presidential election was held which led to the victory of defense minister Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi as president.

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Published

2013-10-01

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