Titles appear as published, in their own language.
TelevisionAsir al-Kutub, Al Araby TV24 February 2018Arabic
With Belal Fadl
A conversation in three parts with Belal Fadl about Zoltan Barany’s How Armies Respond to Revolutions and Why, which Ayyash translated into Arabic for the Arab Network for Research and Publishing. In Arabic, without subtitles.
ModeratorMiddle East Democracy Center8 May 2025Arabic
He moderated. Speakers: Mohamed Najem, Cathrine Abuamsha, Heba Alkadri
An online conversation, in Arabic, on countering disinformation and propaganda by the region’s authoritarian governments. Part of the Democracy Matters Initiative.
TalkLSE Middle East Centre24 October 2023English
With Amr ElAfifi, chaired by Jeroen Gunning
The book presented and discussed in London.
TalkThe Century Foundation1 March 2023English
With Amr ElAfifi and Noha Ezzat; moderated by Thanassis Cambanis, with Elizabeth Nugent responding
The online launch of the book.
TalkProject on Middle East Democracy (POMED)25 January 2021English
First panel, with Salma El Hosseiny, Michael Hanna and Sahar Aziz, moderated by Stephen McInerney
An online event on the tenth anniversary of the January revolution.
TalkBRAIS annual conference1 July 2025English
University of Cambridge
A paper in the panel “Just Struggles: Resistance and Liberation in Islamic Thought”.
TalkBRAIS annual conference20 May 2024English
University of Leeds
A paper in a panel on decolonial discourse in Islamic ethics, power and the state.
InterviewQantara.de15 November 2023English
Interview by Hannah El-Hitami
On Broken Bonds and the Brotherhood’s crises of identity and legitimacy since 2013. Published in English, then in German and Arabic.
InterviewJadaliyya16 March 2023English
New Texts Out Now
Questions and answers with the three authors on why they wrote the book, what it covers and how.
InterviewJeune Afrique4 December 2020French
Interview by Ariane Lavrilleux
On the Brotherhood’s distance from Egyptian society seven years after 2013. In French, and in English in The Africa Report.
InterviewEl Salto27 March 2019Spanish
Interview by Marc Almodóvar
On Muslim Brotherhood members in Egyptian prisons after 2013, and how pressure inside exposes them to extremist ideas.
PodcastBaad Ams podcast, Atheer9 May 2024Arabic
Guest, with Mahmoud Al-Adam; hosted by Rawaa Augé
An episode on India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, and his political path.
PodcastOrder From Ashes, The Century Foundation2 March 2023English
With Thanassis Cambanis
From the Broken Bonds series.
PodcastOrder From Ashes, The Century Foundation23 February 2023English
With Amr ElAfifi, Noha Ezzat and Thanassis Cambanis
From the Broken Bonds series.
PodcastOrder From Ashes, The Century Foundation21 February 2023English
With Thanassis Cambanis
The first episode of the Broken Bonds series, on his own years in the Brotherhood.
RadioThe World (PRX)17 December 2020English
By Stephen Snyder
A radio account for the tenth anniversary of the Arab Spring: Tahrir Square in 2011, and what followed up to 2013.
PodcastOrder From Ashes, The Century Foundation23 September 2020English
With Michael Wahid Hanna and Thanassis Cambanis
On the Brotherhood’s future, seven years after 2013.
QuotedThe New Arab13 February 2026English
On the launch of Wherever They Go. He speaks as the report’s lead researcher.
QuotedCoda Story27 September 2023English
Frankie Vetch
On Arab interior ministries working together against dissidents. He speaks as a case manager at the Freedom Initiative.
QuotedForeign Policy7 August 2023English
Anchal Vohra
On Brotherhood exiles in Turkey after the Turkish-Egyptian rapprochement. He speaks as a former member and a Century Foundation fellow.
QuotedThe New York Times28 August 2020English
Declan Walsh
On the arrest of Mahmoud Ezzat. He is quoted in an interview, as a researcher on Islamist movements, saying Ezzat stayed committed to non-violence.
QuotedLibération4 May 2020French
Hala Kodmani
On the death of the filmmaker Shady Habash in prison. He is quoted, as a human rights defender, on Habash’s last hours.
Cites his researchLe Point8 September 2019French
Ariane Lavrilleux
On letters from young jailed Brotherhood members to the regime. It quotes his Arab Reform Initiative paper on security officers’ contacts with members.
QuotedThe New York Times1 May 2017English
Ian Fisher
On Hamas’s new policy document. He is quoted, as an Istanbul-based researcher on Islamist movements, saying Hamas should temper its hopes of Cairo’s response.
QuotedThe Economist16 June 2016English
On the Brotherhood’s split. He is quoted, as a former member, saying the rhetoric on both sides was polarising and left no chance of reconciliation.
Cites his researchThe Washington Post, Monkey Cage7 March 2016English
Marc Lynch
On the debate over listing the Brotherhood as a terrorist group. It points to his Carnegie analysis, with Ibrahim El-Houdaiby’s writing, on how the group changed after 2013.
Cites his postThe Guardian (Associated Press)2 December 2015English
On the detention of Ismail Alexandrani. It cites Ayyash’s Facebook post about Alexandrani’s talk in Berlin.
Cites his postLe Monde2 December 2015French
On the detention of the researcher Ismail Alexandrani. It cites Ayyash’s Facebook post about the Berlin workshop Alexandrani had attended.
Cites his postDaily News Egypt1 December 2015English
Salma Abdallah
The same story, on Alexandrani’s detention, citing Ayyash’s Facebook post.
QuotedNewsweek11 August 2015English
Janine di Giovanni and Fredrik Elisson
On the Brotherhood under repression. He speaks as a former activist in the group about what repression does to it.
QuotedReuters23 May 2014English
Amena Bakr and William Maclean
On the Brotherhood trying to regroup in exile. He is quoted, as a former member based in Turkey, saying the group should seek allies and build coalitions with others harmed by the coup.
QuotedFinancial Times4 July 2013English
Borzou Daragahi and Heba Saleh
On the arrests after Morsi’s removal. He is quoted, as a former member in touch with the group, saying its leaders had begun a process of self-criticism.
Quoted20 Minutes21 June 2012French
Nina Hubinet, from Cairo
On Egypt’s uncertainty before the election result. He is quoted saying that for the first time the Brothers no longer trusted the military, and would seek a broad coalition against the ruling generals.
QuotedThe Wall Street Journal19 June 2012English
Matt Bradley
On Mohamed Morsi as the election result neared. It describes him as a former youth member who had left the group the year before, and quotes him calling Morsi authoritarian.
QuotedThe New York Times, Latitude blog15 June 2012English
Sarah A. Topol
A dispatch from Cairo on the day of the Constitutional Court ruling. The writer quotes his reaction to military police and intelligence being given powers to arrest civilians.
QuotedLe Monde15 June 2012French
Christophe Ayad and Claire Talon
On the Constitutional Court ruling before the presidential run-off. It describes him as excluded from the Brotherhood and quotes him calling it a military coup that the Brothers had brought on.
QuotedLe Monde2 April 2012French
On the Brotherhood’s choice of Khairat al-Shater as presidential candidate. He is quoted, as a former member, on why Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh worried the Brotherhood: he knew its secrets.
QuotedThe New York Times31 March 2012English
David D. Kirkpatrick
On the Brotherhood breaking its pledge not to run for president. He is quoted, as a former member who had worked closely with Khairat al-Shater, saying Shater was after power.
QuotedThe Guardian16 February 2010English
Joseph Mayton
On the Brotherhood’s young members and tensions inside the group. He speaks as one of its leading bloggers and says he fears a return to the politics of Sayyid Qutb under the new guide, Mohammed Badie.