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Egypt\u2019s Muslim Brotherhood is suffering from an identity crisis, made worse by ongoing, violent state repression. Nearly a century since its founding, the Brotherhood hasn\u2019t reconciled its social and political aims.\nNoha Khaled plumbs the first of three crises besetting the Brotherhood: its internal identity conflict over what kind of organization it aspires to be.\xa0\nThroughout its history, the Brotherhood has struggled to accommodate its mission as a religious and social service network, alongside its ambitions for political power. That ambivalence, or contradiction, forms the cornerstone of the Brotherhood\u2019s ongoing triple crisis.\nThis is the third episode of Broken Bonds, a five-part special season of the Order From Ashes podcast. The first episode charted Abdelrahman Ayyash\u2019s personal coming of age in a Brotherhood milieu. In the second episode, Ayyash, Khaled, and Amr ElAfifi mapped how the crises of identity, legitimacy, and membership simultaneously explain the organization\u2019s weaknesses and its staying power. The remaining episodes of Broken Bonds go deeper into the crises of legitimacy and membership, and the implications for policy.\nBroken Bonds explores the evolution of Egypt\u2019s Muslim Brotherhood from the apex of its power, when it won Egypt\u2019s presidency in 2012, to the organization\u2019s disarray and marginalization today.\nThe podcast season is a companion to a new book, Broken Bonds: The Existential Crisis of Egypt\u2019s Muslim Brotherhood, 2013\u201322, published in February 2023 by TCF Press. Broken Bonds is part of \u201cFaith and Fracture,\u201d a TCF project supported by the Henry Luce Foundation.\nParticipants:\nNoha Khaled, writer and researcher\nThanassis Cambanis, director, Century International