Testimony to the House Intelligence Subcommittee

Chairwoman Myrick, Ranking Minority Member Thompson, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. I am an assistant professor of public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and I have been studying the Muslim Brotherhood for several years. I wrote my dissertation about the movement at Yale, and I am currently finishing a book on the subject. I have interviewed many Brotherhood leaders and members (in the Middle East and elsewhere), studied the movement’s history, and read widely in the writings of its key thinkers and ideologues. I will use my five minutes to speak today about the Muslim Brotherhood in post-Mubarak Egypt, leaving the international and U.S. dimensions to my colleagues and to the question and answer period.