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Following the 2013 military coup in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood was subjected to the most severe campaign of repression in its history. The campaign, initiated by the regime of the now-President Sisi, aimed to completely dismantle the movement and remove any prospects of its return in the future. Generally, the campaign has been successful in suppressing the movement domestically. Muslim Brotherhood members ended up either in underground secrecy, imprisoned, or exiled weaving a narrative of victimhood reminiscent of the Arab odes to Palestine. Eight years later, what remains from the most central Islamist movements in the 20th century?
It is hard, if not outright impossible, to overemphasize the importance of the EMB, Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, in 20th-century history. The movement, founded in the 1920s in Egypt, started a whole universe known as Islamism, a catchall term for various movements, groups, and schools of thought that seek to put create a modern Islamic political reality.
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