Political Repression and Islamist Moderation in Egypt and Morocco between 1990 and 2010

This thesis provides a critical analysis of the environment that the Islamists worked in, which affected their process of moderation testing the inclusion-moderation hypothesis by selecting two case studies, Al Wasat party in Egypt and the Party of Justice and Development in Morocco.Many factors may affect the moderation process and it will be discussed.This thesis uses a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including personal interviews, media reports, documents, and expert analyses.It analyzes how the behaviors of the political regimes in both Egypt and Morocco can affect the moderation process positively/negatively, in addition, the role of the leaders of the Islamists which can play a vital role in this process, further the interaction between the internal and the external factors.