Leaving the Muslim Brotherhood

Self, Society and the State

  • Mustafa Menshawy

Part of the Middle East Today book series (MIET)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiii
  2. Mustafa Menshawy
    Pages 1-26
  3. Mustafa Menshawy
    Pages 27-78
  4. Mustafa Menshawy
    Pages 79-119
  5. Mustafa Menshawy
    Pages 189-196
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 197-203

About this book


The book offers a processual and discursive perspective on how individuals exit the Muslim Brotherhood. The framework is based on an interaction of ‘micro’ psychological and emotional factors, ‘meso’ organizational factors and ‘macro’ political developments linked to the specific case of the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt during the Arab Spring. Based on interviews conducted in Egypt, Turkey, Qatar and the United Kingdom, the author traces in-depth narratives of exiters while they return to their private life or resort to political activism of another stripe. This work examines thought-provoking patterns pertaining to elements long under-explored in the scholarship and stands out as it systematically identifies this unexamined subset of Brotherhood members: peaceful leavers. 

Mustafa Menshawy is Assistant Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Qatar, and Associate Fellow at University of Westminster, UK.


The January Revolution the Muslim Brotherhood Muslim Brotherhood Egypt Muslim Brotherhood Qatar Muslim Brotherhood Turkey Regime Discourse Regime dissent Regime disengagement Muslim Brotherhood revolution

Authors and affiliations

  • Mustafa Menshawy
    • 1
  1. 1.Doha Institute for Graduate StudiesDohaQatar

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