In Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi won that country’s first post-Arab Spring elections in 2012. After all, this isn’t the first time the demise of Muslim Brotherhood affiliates has been mooted, they told DW. And they are tremendously resilient.”At first, Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Bana was largely apoliticalThe Muslim Brotherhood is a Sunni Muslim group first founded in 1928 by Egyptian teacher Hassan al-Banna. It has inspired groups and political parties throughout the Middle East, including in Jordan, Bahrain, Syria, Sudan, Libya, Palestine and Algeria, among others. She has studied the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and its exiles in depth.
