Abdel Fattah el Sisi

Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil elSisi , commonly known as Sisi, is the sixth and incumbent President of Egypt, in office since June 2014. As chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, Sisi launched the 2013 Egyptian coup dtat that removed President Mohamed Morsi from office in the aftermath of the June 2013 Egyptian protests. Two months later, troops loyal to Sisi began a bloody crackdown against protestors and dissidents, later to be coined the August 2013 Rabaa massacre that left 1,400 dead and 16,000 detained. In the wake of violence, Sisi installed an interim government, but remained Egypts Minister of Defence and assumed the role of the countrys First Deputy Prime Minister. OnMarch 2014 he resigned from his military post, announcing that he would run as a candidate in the 2014 presidential election. The election, held betweenandMay and which included only one opponent, was boycotted by most political parties and the Muslim Brotherhood, and resulted in Sisi winning the pres

ElSisi was born in Gamaleya in Old Cairo onNovember 1954, to parents Said Hussein Khalili alSisi and Soad Ibrahim Mohamed Al Shishi. He grew up in Gamaleya, near the alAzhar Mosque, and in a quarter where Muslims, Jews and Christians resided, and in which he later recalled how during his childhood he heard church bells and watched Jews flock to the synagogue unhindered. Sisi would later enroll in the Egyptian Military Academy, and upon graduating he held various command positions in the Egyptian Armed Forces and served as Egypts military attach in Riyadh. In 1987, he attended the Egyptian Command and Staff College, and in 1992 he continued his military career by enrolling in the British Command and Staff College, and later in the United States Army War College. Sisi was the youngest member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, serving as the director of military intelligence and reconnaissance department. He was later chosen to replace

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