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The Muslim Brotherhood - Hassan al-Banna

Egypt now has a president from the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement which began 84 years ago. Its founder was Hassan al-Banna - a teacher and imam.

Egypt now has a president from the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist movement which began 84 years ago.

Its founder was Hassan al-Banna - an Egyptian teacher and imam.

His grandson, the Islamic intellectual, Tariq Ramadan talks to Witness.

(Image: An undated picture of Sheikh Hassan al-Banna (1906-1949), the founder of Egypt's Moslem Brotherhood. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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