One of the most important questions that was asked by the members of the Muslim Brotherhood, and which continues to haunt them until today, was why their experiment with power had failed so abruptly and so disastrously. Why was it that the Muslim Brotherhood, after having spectacularly won almost half of the seats of Egypt’s parliament in early 2012 and then clinched the presidency six months later, was ousted in such a dramatic fashion, and after only one year?