How did the Muslim Brotherhood take part in the Egyptian uprising of 2011?

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Founder of the Muslim Brotherood — Muslim Brotherhood Hassan al-Banna, a schoolteacher in Ismailia, Egypt, founded the Muslim Brotherhood in 1928 as an attempt to modernize Islamic society.

During the Egyptian uprising of 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood initially hesitated before its senior leadership officially endorsed the protest movement. Following this decision, the organization called upon its members to join the demonstrations against the regime of Hosni Mubarak.1

The success of these protests, which forced Mubarak to step down in February 2011, created an opening for the group to participate openly in Egyptian politics. By April 2011, following the dissolution of Mubarak’s National Democratic Party, the Brotherhood emerged as the country's most significant organized political faction. To formalize its political engagement, the organization founded the Freedom and Justice Party later that month, which subsequently achieved a dominant position in the parliamentary elections held between late 2011 and early 2012.1