Joseph Braude speaks with Elie Fawaz, a Lebanese political analyst with the Beirut office of the Lebanon Renaissance Foundation, about whether the Muslim Brotherhood or other Islamist parties will dominate politics in a post-Asad Syria.
Joseph Braude (JB): Some Western observers doubted Arab regimes would fall last year, then doubted Islamists would beat Twitter users at the polls, and now insist that Islamists will sweep elections in a post-Assad Syria. Elie Fawaz at Beirut’s Lebanon Renaissance Foundation takes a different view in evaluating the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood, who now dominate an opposition coalition based in Turkey called the Syrian National Council.
Elie Fawaz (EF): As you look at the Muslim Brotherhood, they are, basically, first of all they’re old, all of them are aging, and they are abroad. They live in Turkey, they are in Britain, they are also in Germany, and the Syrian National Council as well has not proven to be the force that can lead Syria when the Assad regime will fall.
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