The Muslim Brotherhood: Who Are They?

In this Conflicted Conversation, Thant Myint-U talks about his new book Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s. It tells the story of his grandfather U Thant, the Burmese schoolteacher turned UN Secretary-General who guided the United Nations th ...  Show more

French war reporter and global jihadism expert Wassim Nasr was part of the presidential press party during Emmanuel Macron’s recent visit to Damascus. He shares his first-hand account not only of what happened between Macron and Syrian president Ahmad al-Sharaa during the visit, ...  Show more

In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Lucia Ardovini to discuss the Brotherhood’s search for identity in a post-2013 context. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/mi ...  Show more

In this episode of the After Maghrib Podcast, hosts Ahmed and Sayed Ali dive into the ongoing conflict in Gaza and Beirut, exploring how external forces are attempting to exploit sectarian divisions between Sunnis and Shias. They discuss the dangerous "divide and conquer" tact ...

Abdullah El-Haddad is an activist and a former spokesperson of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United Kingdom. We talk to him about the recent death of President Morsi, the imprisonment of his father and brother and the future direction of the Muslim Brotherhood after the failed ...

Cataloguing the tapestry of Islamic traditions is a task that lies well beyond our scope, but every now and again the topic overlaps with the subjects we are interested in. It’s important to understand where the Qaramita and Fatimids came from, because these two foes will face th ...  Show more