Annette Ranko analyses the Muslim Brotherhood's challenging of the Mubarak regime and the
ensuing struggle between the two from 1981 to 2011. She furthermore traces how the group
evolved throughout the process of that struggle. She studies how the Brotherhood's portrayal of
itself as an attractive alternative to the regime provoked the Mubarak regime to level
anti-Brotherhood propaganda in the state-run media in order to contain the group's appeal
amongst the public. The author shows how the regime's portrayal of the Brotherhood and the
Brotherhood's engagement with it have evolved over time and how this ideational interplay has
combined with structural institutional aspects in shaping the group's behaviour and ideology.
