Yet those at the top are often indecisive, not to say incoherent, unable to pronounce a judgement on anything, relying on platitudes and ambiguity, actively promoting misunderstanding of the movement's aims and ideals. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. This book was no doubt revelatory when first written several decades ago. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. This is the first in-depth study of the relationship between the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and its own members. This is an investigation of Freemasonry which studies such areas as Freemasonry's religious and occult elements, the police and the underworld, the armed forces, and charities. Drawing on his original research, Kandil reinterprets the Brotherhood’s slow rise and rapid downfall from power in Egypt, and compares it to the Islamist subsidiaries it created and the varieties it inspired around the world.This timely book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the politics of the Middle East and to anyone who wants to understand the dramatic events unfolding in Egypt and elsewhere in the wake of the Arab uprisings.Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Please try againSorry, we failed to record your vote. He produces a persuasive testimony that Freemasonry has become a scourge and a disease in jobs in the public service. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations The author Hazem Kandil is the Cambridge University Lecturer in Political Sociology and Fellow of St Catharine's College. This is clearly a very well researched book into the Muslim Brotherhood, but having got to the end of it I felt it could have been far better written. The best ever in this subject. -- After reading history at Cambridge University, he worked - from 1969 to 1984 - on major current affairs programmes for the ITV companies Thames, Granada and London Weekend (on the Lebanon) and for Channel 4's Dispatches series (on the international arms trade). A movement which briefly took power during the chaotic post Murbarak Arab Spring years before being unceremoniously removed by the military. And, relying on first-hand evidence wherever possible, the book probes the extent to which the Masonic oaths of mutual aid and secrecy have contaminated the fraternity, aroused mounting hostility from churches, politicians and public, and provoked charges of corruption in key areas of British life, including the police force, local government, the City, and the secret services." The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising This is an investigation of Freemasonry which studies such areas as Freemasonry's religious and occult elements, the police and the underworld, the armed forces, and charities. In 1988 he presented Charlie Richardson and the British Mafia for Longshot Productions and Channel 4. "Kandil's overall portrait offers an impressive but bleak dissection that debunks the wishful thinking of many liberals who imagined the Brotherhood as a left-wing counterweight to Egypt's generals" The Mamba Mentality: How I Play The big question with which the book concludes is whether the setback in Egypt, where it won an election and then squandered its opportunities by incompetence and worse, will be terminal.

"Inside the Brotherhood" examines what kind of men join the Craft - and why. Approximately half a million men in the British Isles - another five million around the world - are Freemasons. Verified Purchase. You're listening to a sample of the Audible audio edition.Something went wrong.