The present election results, however, will make it rather difficult for the Egyptian regime to portray the poll with a democratic sheen. Europe should take critical notice of this fact and, as a direct result, undertake an examination of its policies towards Egypt, writes Egypt expert Thomas Demmelhuber
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In this Sunday, May 5, 2010 file photo, Mahmoud Ezzat, a top Muslim Brotherhood leader, left, and Mohammed Badie, leader of Muslim Brotherhood leave a press conference in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
CAIRO Egypt on Thursday sentenced Mahmud Ezzat, the 76-year-old top leader of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of “terrorism,” the state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported.
“The Cairo Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced Mahmoud Ezzat, the acting supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood designated as a terrorist, to life for murder and terrorism charges,” according to the newspaper.
Ezzat was arrested in August 2020 in Cairo, after being on the run for several years.
Published date: 12 January 2021 10:57 UTC | Last update: 2 months 2 weeks ago
The question of what could have been looms heavily over Victor Willi s new history of the Muslim Brotherhood
Senior Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood member Sobhi Saleh is seen behind bars during a verdict and sentencing session of a retrial for him and other Brotherhood members in Cairo on 11 September, 2019 (AFP)
One of the oddly difficult truths to grasp about the Arab uprisings is that they did not have to be the failure they appeared to be.
When looking back on major historical events in an effort to understand them, we intuitively tend towards teleological interpretations that ascribe eternal essences to protagonists, whose actions in particular circumstances could only have resulted in the events that happened.