Open Forum on The Muslim Brotherhood

Featuring:

• Moderator – Peter Bergen

Research Fellow, Center on Law and Security, CNN analyst and author, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader

Panelists:

• Dr. Alexis Debat

Senior Fellow at the Nixon Center and Senior Consultant to ABC News; Former advisor to the French minister of Defense on Transatlantic Affairs.

• Nick Fielding

Author of Masterminds of Terror: the truth behind the most devastating attack the world has ever seen and formerly senior reporter at the Sunday Times (London).

This event will analyze the future role the Muslim Brotherhood will play in Middle Eastern Politics. Topics covered will include: How would the Muslim Brotherhood act if they made an electoral breakthrough in a Middle Eastern country? Would an empowered Muslim Brotherhood pursue a narrow Islamist agenda or would it be prepared to forge compromises with secular parties and non-Islamic parties providing the best hope for representative government in the region? What sort of partner would a Muslim Brotherhood government be to the West and what would its stance be towards Israel?

Underlining all these questions is how much does it make sense to talk of the Muslim Brotherhood as one unified entity rather than having separate agendas in individual countries.