Phenomenal research on the Muslim Brotherhood

This is a scholarly book for those interested in deep analysis of the subject. The author has had extensive access within both the brotherhood and parts of Egypt’s various regimes. The tone is academic as you’d expect, with a bit more sociological jargon than I’d have liked, but it flows reasonably and makes important points. It was a shame there wasn’t more about the current government but that would be a tall order. The narration performance is a bit mechanical, which is a shame. The quality of the research makes up for this though

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Wonderful book. Appalling audiobook.

Superbly researched, nicely paced, detailedfascinating history of the modern Arab world. Highly recommended in kindle or physical book form.

AVOID THE AUDIOBOOK LIKE THE RONA!!

The audiobook is shoddy, lazy, cynical, dispiriting, money grabbing tripe. In almost every way it is an unlistenable affront to the obvious amount of effort, care and diligence displayed by the Author.

The narrator pronounces almost every possible name wrong, sometimes the same name, different ways in the same paragraph.

I don't blame him. He has a nice voice. He was just hired to do a job, he obviously had no idea he would struggle with Arabic names.

However, everyone involved with the audiobook behind the scenes, should be utterly, utterly ashamed.

Imagine, an audiobook about WW2 centered around Stalin, Churchill and the Nazis, except the narrator tells tales about "Starline, Shorshill and the Narzize". For 10 hours. And nobody even bothered to check. Not once. Then just released it and waited for the cash to roll in. Absolutely terrible, I pity the poor author. They must have been so excited about their work becoming an audiobook.

I sincerely hope the physical book sells enough copies for the author, and his subject matter, to be afforded a modicum of respect in future.

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