The Muslim Brotherhood has been one of my research interests since I was a doctoral student, so the events of the Arab Spring in Egypt and across the Maghreb were especially interesting to me. A good amount of the existing literature, and certainly the popular media, tends to make sweeping..
Jeffry R. Halverson and Nathaniel Greenberg
Jeffry R. Halverson, Ph.D., is an associate professor of religious studies (Islamic studies) in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Coastal Carolina University (SC). He previously served as an assistant research professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Halverson is the author of Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam (Palgrave Macmillan 2010), Searching for a King: Muslim Nonviolence and the Future of Islam (Potomac, 2012), and the lead author of Master Narratives of Islamist Extremism (Palgrave Macmillan 2011) and Islamists of the Maghreb (Routledge 2017). His scholarship has also been published in several academic journals, including The Muslim World and The Journal of Communication.
Nathaniel Greenberg, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Arabic at George Mason University and book review editor for The Journal of Arabic Literature. His work includes The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952-1967) (Lexington 2014) and Islamists of the Maghreb (Routledge 2017) with Jeffry R. Halverson. Additional articles have appeared in The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, The Comparatist and Jadaliyya. Professor Greenberg teaches modern Arabic literature and film. He serves currently as director of George Mason’s undergraduate Major and Minor in Arabic.