This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Renée Montagne. Some people in Egypt had been quietly marking the centenary of Sheikh Hassan al-Banna. In 1928, he founded the Muslim Brotherhood. It became ...
The thesis of Cynthia Farahat’s The Secret Apparatus (Bombardier Books) is that the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization founded in Cairo in the 1920s by an Egyptian, Hassan al-Banna, is the principal ...