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SUMMARY:Eric Trager on "Arab Fall: How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost 
 Egypt in 891 Days"
DESCRIPTION:Speaker Bio:\n\n\n\nEric Trager\, the Esther K. Wagner Fellow a
 t The Washington Institute\, is an expert on Egyptian politics and the Mus
 lim Brotherhood in Egypt. He was in Egypt during the 2011 anti-Mubarak rev
 olts and returns frequently to conduct firsthand interviews with leaders i
 n Egypt's government\, military\, political parties\, media\, and civil so
 ciety. His writings have appeared in numerous publications\, including the
  New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Foreign Affairs\, the Atlantic\, a
 nd the New Republic.\n\nTrager is the author of Arab Fall: How the Muslim 
 Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days (Georgetown University Press\, 
 2016) which chronicles the precipitous rise to power of Egypt’s Muslim B
 rotherhood\, culminating in the election of President Mohamed Morsi in 201
 2\, and its sudden demise just a year later. The book also assesses the cu
 rrent state of Egyptian politics and the prospects for a reemergence of th
 e Brotherhood.\n\nDr. Trager has served as an adjunct professor at the Uni
 versity of Pennsylvania\, where his doctoral research focused on Egyptian 
 opposition parties. From 2006-2007\, he lived in Egypt as an Islamic Civil
 izations Fulbright fellow\, where he studied at the American University in
  Cairo and received his M.A. in Arabic studies with a concentration in Isl
 amic studies. He served as a research assistant at The Washington Institut
 e from 2005 to 2006 upon graduation from Harvard University with a degree 
 in government and language citations in Arabic and Hebrew.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHo
 w did Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood win power so quickly after the dramatic "
 Arab Spring" uprising that ended President Hosni Mubarak's thirty-year rei
 gn in February 2011? And why did the Brotherhood fall from power even more
  quickly\, culminating with the popular "rebellion" and military coup that
  toppled Egypt's first elected president\, Brotherhood leader Mohamed Mors
 i\, in July 2013? In Arab Fall\, Eric Trager examines the Brotherhood's de
 cision making throughout this critical period\, explaining its reasons for
  joining the 2011 uprising\, running for a majority of the seats in the 20
 11-2012 parliamentary elections\, and nominating a presidential candidate 
 despite its initial promise not to do so. Based on extensive research in E
 gypt and interviews with dozens of Brotherhood leaders and cadres includin
 g Morsi\, Trager argues that the very organizational characteristics that 
 helped the Brotherhood win power also contributed to its rapid downfall. T
 he Brotherhood's intensive process for recruiting members and its rigid na
 tionwide command-chain meant that it possessed unparalleled mobilizing cap
 abilities for winning the first post-Mubarak parliamentary and presidentia
 l elections. Read more here. \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you are a teacher who would li
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 tesy of Alaska Public media\, please click here.
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