the first panelist is michele dunne a senior associate at the middle east program where her research focuses on economic change in the countries particularly egypt and u.s. foreign policy in the middle east and at the end of the table is william mccants at the center for middle east policies and on relations with the arab worl wod and the brookings institute so thank you for joining us. between them is hassan mneimneh, senior transatlantic fellow for the middle east and africa at the fund of the united states and the islam world. all of them have very distinguished careers and backgrounds and you can access their biographies you have in front of you and certainly it is on the website as well. so, thank you very much for joining us and if you want to know more about them refer to that. we will then turn it over to you. so, what we are here to do is to evaluate and take stock as far as we can the future outlook of the muslim brotherhood as an orientation of the political movement across the middle east especially across the arab world and we will get as i say to the specific states in