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December 2012: In a little street in Faisal, a working-class neighborhood in the city of Giza, an office decked out in the colors of the Muslim Brotherhood’s (MB) Freedom and Justice Party catches the eye—the blue-and-white sign bears the name of the then manpower minister, Khaled al-Azhari, elected to parliament for this district in winter 2011–2012, and also announces that this is the place where food and other aid is handed out. It is 8 p.m. and the metal gate is drawn across the door. The street’s inhabitants say the office hasn’t been opened since the end of the presidential election in June 2012: “Yet they say that the minister still comes to the apartment he owns here, but no one has run into him.”1
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Excerpt from Hassan al-Banna’s “Epistle of the Fifth Congress,” cited and translated into English by Richard P. Mitchell, The Society of the Muslim Brothers (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993 (1969)), p. 14.
Brynjar Lia, The Society of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt. The Rise of an Islamic Mass Movement, 1928–1942 (Reading, UK: Ithaca, 1998).
On this notion, see Alexandre Dézé, “Un parti ‘virtuel’? Le Front national au prisme de son site internet,” in Fabienne Greffet, Continuerlalutte.com . Les partis politiques sur le web (Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2011);
and Bernard Pudal, Prendre Parti. Pour une sociologie historique du PCF (Paris: Presses de la FNSP, 1989).
See Marie Vannetzel, “Secret public, réseaux sociaux et morale politique. Les Frères musulmans et la société égyptienne,” Politix, vol. 23, no. 92 (2010): 75–95.
On this notion, see Alexandre Dézé, “Un parti ‘virtuel’?” and Myriam Aït-Aoudia and Alexandre Dézé, “Contribution à une approche sociologique de la gen è se partisane. Une analyse du Front national, du Movimiento sociale italiano, et du Front islamique de salut,” Revue française de science politique, vol. 61, no. 4 (2011): 631–657.
To use Pierre Bourdieu’s expression regarding the Catholic Church, in Practical Reason. On the Theory of Action (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), pp. 124–125.
Michel Hastings, “Partis politiques et administration du sens,” in Dominique Andolfatto, Fabienne Greffet, and Laurent Olivier (eds), Les partis politiques: quelles perspectives? (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2001), pp. 21–36.
See Sarah Ben Néfissa’s article on local governance in Egypt, “La vie politique locale: les mahalliyyât et le refus du politique,” in Vincent Battesti and François Ireton (eds), L’Egypte au présent. Inventaire d’une société avant la révolution (Cairo, Cedej, Paris: Karthala, 2011), pp. 343–366;
and Jean-Noël Ferrié, L’Égypte entre démocratie et islamisme. Le système Moubarak à l’heure de la succession (Paris: Autrement, 2008).
See Jacques Lagroye, Appartenir à une institution. Catholiques en France aujourd’hui (Paris: Economica, 2009).
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Vannetzel, M. (2016). Confronting the Transition to Legality. In: Rougier, B., Lacroix, S. (eds) Egypt’s Revolutions. The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56322-4_3
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