SUMMARY: [B]Since July 3, 2013, Egypt's government has embarked on an extensive campaign
to dismember the Muslim Brotherhood's formidable network of social services. With electoral
participation, civic activism, and social service provision now foreclosed, street activism has
become the lone vehicle for Brotherhood mobilization. This paper uses the lens of the
Brotherhood's schools and medical facilities to show how regime repression and the rise of
alternative models of social service provision are incentivizing the Brotherhood to adopt more
confrontational methods of opposition..........................

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