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[108] [109] He has also called for an end to the Islamic verbal divorce; however, this was rejected by a council of scholars from Al-Azhar University. [110] Sisi also became the first Egyptian president in the country's history to attend Christmas Mass [111] and gave a speech at the Coptic Orthodox Christmas service in Cairo in January 2015 ...
The 2013 Egyptian coup d'etat or the Counter-revolution [9] [10] is an event that took place on 3 July 2013. Egyptian army chief General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi led a coalition to remove the democratically elected President of Egypt Mohamed Morsi from power and suspended the Egyptian constitution of 2012. [11]
Protests against the 2013 Egyptian coup d'état erupted in July 2013. [6] [7] [8] Immediately following the removal of President Mohamed Morsi by the Egyptian Armed Forces on 3 July 2013 amid demonstrations against Morsi's rule, many protesters amassed near the Rabia Al-Adawiya Mosque to call for Morsi's return to power and condemn the military, while others demonstrated in support of the ...
The top U.S. general overseeing American troops in the Middle East made an unannounced trip to Egypt for talks on Thursday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that focused on the Israel ...
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns will also attend, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, after he met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Gaza in a phone call on Saturday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Kremlin said, on the eve of an election in which Sisi ...
An ultimatum was issued prior to 14 August, although Al-Azhar, Egypt's official Islamic authority, denied that such a warning had been given. [25] The area around the Rabaa al-Adaweya Mosque had been packed with Muslim Brotherhood supporters sleeping in tents for over a month before the sit-in was cleared.
The FJP office was attacked by armed assailants just hours after an Al-Ahram interview with the local party leader Ahmed Shehata when he presented his own version of Sunday's protests claiming that the number of "real revolutionaries" protesting peacefully that day would not exceed 20,000 across Egypt. The attack claimed the life of 21-year-old ...