n the Brotherhood Win In Egypt Without Its No. 1 Star? Ashraf Khalil April 18, 2012 -- CAIRO — Last week, the Muslim Brotherhood's leading light, Khairat al-Shater, looked like a confident front-runner in Egypt's presidential race. On the night of April 12, more than 5,000 men -- and another 1,000 or so women,

an Hammelehle The National Interest Egypt's Muddy Waters Nathan J. Brown April 4, 2012 -- The decision of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood to nominate Khairat al-Shater to the presidency plunges Egypt's transition—always a seemingly unsteady affair—into complete uncertainty. For all the day-to- day gyrations to date

er drives his agenda. Let's not forget that Morsy, in fact, is something of an accidental President himself: Egypt's elected leader today would be Khairat al-Shater, Morsy's longtime mentor in the Brotherhood, were it not for SCAF's electoral commission ruling him ineligible on a legal technicality. Morsy was t

When the Brotherhoo= broke an earlier promise not to run a presidential candidate, the army-ap=ointed elections board disqualified its first choice, Khairat al-Shater, a=businessman seen as the group's intellectual strongman. Mr Morsi, its reserve candidate, was a professor of engineering=known for unquestioning l