In Brothers Behind Bars, Mathias Ghyoot tells the story if the imprisonment of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt stretching from the Palestine War to 1975. Drawing on hundreds of prison memoirs written by Muslim Brothers and Sisters, the book takes the reader on a journey behind the prison walls to show how radicals and moderates, ministers and intelligence officers, clerics and jailers were embroiled in an epic battle to define Islam in modern Egypt.

Mathias Ghyoot is a Ph.D. student in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He studies the social and intellectual history of the modern Middle East and South Asia with a particular interest in the history of Islamism.