Samer Shehata

Bio:

Samer Shehata is assistant professor of Arab politics at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University.

Articles by this Author


The Brotherhood Goes to Parliament	Sitting on a comfortable fake leather couch in the lobby of Cairo’s four-star Ma‘adi Hotel on a spring evening, we watch tourists mill around. Asian, European and Sudanese businessmen and holidaymakers casually eat a buffet dinner or...	MER240
Boxing In the Brothers	The latest crackdown by the Egyptian state on the Muslim Brotherhood began after a student demonstration at Cairo’s al-Azhar University. Dressed in black, their faces covered with matching hoods whose headbands read samidun, or “...
Hear Out Muslim Brotherhood	On a quiet, one-way street in Cairo’s middle-class Manial district, two bored security guards sit idly sipping tea. The building behind them houses a small apartment that serves as the main offices of the Muslim Brotherhood, the oldest...