BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Detroit X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Detroit BEGIN:VEVENT UID:35982@arabamerica.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260318T190000 DTSTAMP:20260304T013726Z URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/brothers-behind-bars/ SUMMARY:Brothers Behind Bars DESCRIPTION:\nPhiladelphia\, PA\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA History of the Mus lim Brotherhood from the Palestine War to Egypt’s Prisons.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Over the course of three decades\, between 1948 and 1975\, more than 60\,0 00 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were imprisoned in Egypt. What did th ese prison experiences mean for the social\, intellectual\, and organizati onal development of the Brotherhood? What role has the prison\, more broad ly\, played in the history of Islamism? And how have interactions between the state and political prisoners of diverse ideological commitments shape d the debate over the role of religion and politics in twentieth-century E gypt?\n\nBrothers Behind Bars: A History of the Muslim Brotherhood from th e Palestine War to Egypt’s Prisons (Oxford University Press\, 2025) tel ls the harrowing yet fascinating history of the Muslim Brotherhood’s imp risonment\, from the Palestine War through the consolidation of President Anwar al-Sadat’s rule. Drawing on a wide range of previously untapped so urces—including prison memoirs written by Muslim Brothers and Sisters— Mathias Ghyoot will in this in this talk go behind prison walls to show ho w moderates and radicals\, jailers and intelligence officers\, clerics and communists were drawn into a prolonged struggle over the meaning of Islam in twentieth-century Egypt. Challenging dominant narratives about the pri son experiences of the Muslim Brothers\, and about the development of Isla mism more broadly\, the talk will foreground the role of memory in shaping collective experience and argue for the need to construct an alternative archive beyond both the Egyptian National Archives and the records of the Muslim Brotherhood. In doing so\, the talk ultimately addresses a critical methodological question for historians of the modern Middle East: how to write the history of the carceral state that was—and remains—modern Eg ypt.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.arabamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2 026/03/image-28-1.webp CATEGORIES:Arab,Community,culture,Discussion LOCATION:Fisher - Bennett Hall\, 3340 Walnut Street \, Philadelphia\, PA\, United States GEO:39.9525148;-75.19172609999998 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=3340 Walnut Street \, Phila delphia\, PA\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Fisher - Bennett H all:geo:39.9525148,-75.19172609999998 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR