The Muslim Brotherhood in Syria / Dara Conduit.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"As the Arab Uprisings spread across the Middle East in January 2011, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood's leaders gathered in a town a few hundred kilometres from Istanbul for their monthly meeting. The group had been in exile for the nearly three decades since their failed previous uprising, and its leaders and members were now scattered across the world. For the first time in many years however, the Brothers had reason to be hopeful. The swift overthrow of Tunisia's long-reigning dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and the growing protests against the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had raised the question of revolt in Syria. The Brotherhood's Strategic Planning chief Molham Aldrobi later recalled that up until that moment: 'none of us...had imagined or dreamed or had that nightmare--however you want to describe it--that a revolution might happen in Syria because for the 30-plus years since 1980, nothing had happened"-- Provided by publisher.