Very educated family, a very well-known family in Egypt.

He actually joined the Muslim Brotherhood when he was quite young, when he was a teenager.

And the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was very active in trying to transform how the Egyptian government was organized to instill more Sharia law.

That's law based on Islam.

on Islam, the religion, and he rapidly actually became disabused of the idea that the Muslim Brotherhood's path forward, which was nonviolent, was going to be effective.

And you see him, he gets rounded up in an effort by the Egyptian government to quell Islamist dissent.

He spends a couple of years in prison.

That's how Sayyid Qutb impacted the thinking of Ayman Zawahiri.

A very well-known family in Egypt.

Egypt.He actually joined the Muslim Brotherhood when he was quite young, when he was a teenager.

And the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt was very active in trying to transform how the Egyptian government was organized to instill more Sharia law.

That's law based on, on, um, on Islam, the religion.

And he rapidly actually became, uh, disabused of the idea that the Muslim Brotherhood's path forward, which was non-violent, was going to be effective.

Uh, and you, you see him, he gets rounded up in a, a, an effort by the Egyptian government to quell Islamist dissent.

He spends a couple of years in prison, uh, during which time he really came out a changed man.

And that's how Sayyid Qutb impacted, uh, the thinking of Ayman al-Zawahiri.