The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

In: Cambridge Middle East studies

Abstract

Having played a role in every iteration of Syrian politics since the country gained independence in 1946, the Muslim Brotherhood were the most prominent opposition group in Syria on the eve of the 2011 uprising. But when unrest broke out in March 2011, few Brotherhood flags and slogans were to be found within the burgeoning protest movement. Drawing on extensive primary research including interviews with Brotherhood members, Dara Conduit looks to the group's history to understand why it failed to capitalise on this advantage as the conflict unfolded, addressing significant gaps in accounts of the group's past to assess whether its reputation for violence and dogmatism is justified. In doing so, Conduit reveals a party that was neither as violent nor as undemocratic as expected, but whose potential to stage a long-awaited comeback was hampered by the shadow of its own history.

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The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria

In: Cambridge Middle East studies

Conduit, Dara

Conduit, Dara

Abstract

"As the Arab Uprisings spread across the Middle East in January 2011, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood's leaders gathered in a town a few hundred kilometres from Istanbul for their monthly meeting. The group had been in exile for the nearly three decades since their failed previous uprising, and its leaders and members were now scattered across the world. For the first time in many years however, the Brothers had reason to be hopeful. The swift overthrow of Tunisia's long-reigning dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and the growing protests against the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had raised the question of revolt in Syria. The Brotherhood's Strategic Planning chief Molham Aldrobi later recalled that up until that moment: 'none of us...had imagined or dreamed or had that nightmare--however you want to describe it--that a revolution might happen in Syria because for the 30-plus years since 1980, nothing had happened" (Publisher's description)

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