George Clooney Casual Mentions How His Wife Worked With the Muslim Brotherhood to Draft Egypt’s Constitution

by Arpad Barta

George Clooney has long positioned himself as a woke voice for justice, rubbing shoulders with presidents and lecturing on global morality from red carpets. But a recent chat show appearance peeled back a layer most viewers never see. Sitting across from Drew Barrymore, Clooney recounted courting his wife, Amal Alamuddin Clooney, back in the early days.

“I was trying to impress her,” he said with a grin, “and she was in a meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood drafting the Egyptian constitution.” The line landed like a punchline, but it’s no joke—it’s a window into a chapter of history that still casts shadows over the Middle East.

In the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s brief democratic opening handed power to Mohamed Morsi and his Freedom and Justice Party, the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood. The group, founded in 1928 as an Islamic supremacy movement to spread Sharia law, swept elections in 2012. What followed was a rushed constitutional process, one that embedded Sharia principles into the nation’s legal framework while sidelining secular voices…

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