Resurgence of Terrorism-Egypt After the Fall of the Muslim Brotherhood

Abstract

In March 1999, the al-Jama’a al-Islamiyya, a radical group which had carried out terrorism campaign against the Egyptian State for over a decade, causing more than 1,300 dead, and many more socio-political and economic consequences renounced violence. Because of that truce, Egypt witnessed a decline in terrorist activities. However, since the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party in 2013, Egypt has witnessed a resurgence of terrorism. The position of this paper is that the resurgence transcends the usual narrative of power struggle between Islamist and secularists, which always dominates discusses on Terrorism in Egypt and other Muslim Countries. To this end the study asks: What major factor is responsible for the resurgence of terrorism in Egypt since the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood? To answer the question, the paper highlights the importance of understanding terrorism as a multifaceted phenomenon, identifying conditions that drives it at various times by using the case of Egypt as a case study. The study relied on sources from the Global Terrorism Database, Human Rights Watch, the Amnesty International, and Newspaper publications in Egypt before and after the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Keyword: Bedouin tribesmen, Injustice, Muslim Brotherhood, Resurgence, Terrorism