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GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
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
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness
Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
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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