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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Fruitless quest for divine favour
A new book shows how the Muslim Brotherhood’s emphasis on religious ideology led to their downfall, says Dan Glazebrook
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
Inside the Brotherhood, by Hazem Kandil (Polity, £20)
Hazem Kandil’s study of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is a deeply intimate portrait of an organisation rightly known as “the mother of all Islamist movements.”
The book seeks to understand the nature of the Brotherhood’s religious ideology, how it is maintained and inculcated amongst its own members, and how it determines its political strategy.
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