In her spare time, the 47-year-old veiled academic is trying to save the Muslim Brotherhood, the outlawed group that Egypt‘s army-backed authorities brand a „terrorist group“, by ensuring it remains committed to peaceful change and rejects violence.
With most Brotherhood leaders, including Egypt‘s deposed president Mohamed Mursi, now behind bars, the granddaughter of Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna is one of the movement‘s few influential figures still at large.