Egyptian president sisi biography

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi was born on November 19, 1954 in Cairo, Egypt.

Egyptian president sisi biography

Sisi attended the Egyptian Military Academy and graduated in 1977. Afterward, he served in Egypt’s infantry. Like many of his peers, he never saw combat but rose through the ranks to command a mechanized infantry division and later Egypt’s northern military region.

In 2010, Sisi was appointed the director of military intelligence.

After the January-February 2011 uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, Sisi became the youngest member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which was a group of senior military officers that took over governing Egypt.

In August 2012, amid a power struggle with the military, the Muslim Brotherhood’sMohamed Morsi, who was elected president of Egypt in the wake of the revolution during the Arab Spring, appointed the little-known Sisi as defense minister and commander of the armed forces after forcing senior SCAF members into retirement.

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