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Nathan J. Brown

Nathan J. Brown is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the George Washington University and author of When Victory Is Not an Option: Islamist Movements in Arab Politics

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Mohammad Fadel tells a powerful, depressing, and all too accurate story. In one way, though, I think he may be too cheery. He writes, “The real choice in Egypt was not between...
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