What if the Muslim Brotherhood came to power in this country or that? What would happen to the state and its institutions, to society and its freedoms, and to the democracy that enabled the Brotherhood to reach power?
I lived through the experience — and paid a price. The journey began with the dream of establishing a democratic civil state in Egypt and ended in exile, after confronting two competing projects vying for power that shared a hostility toward the civil state: the project of religious rule and the project of military rule.
