Abdel Fattah el-Sisi



Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi (Arabic: عبد الفتاح سعيد حسين خليل السيسي‎  'Abde'l-Fattāḥ Sa'īd Ḥesayn Khalīl es-Sīsī, IPA: [ʕæbdəl.fətˈtæːħ sæˈʕiːd ħeˈseːn xæˈliːl əsˈsiːsi]) is the sixth and incumbent President of Egypt, in office since 2014.

Field Marshal Sisi was born in Cairo and after joining the military, held a post in Saudi Arabia before enrolling in the Egyptian Army's Command and Staff College. In 1992, Sisi trained at the Joint Services Command and Staff College at Watchfield, Oxfordshire, in the United Kingdom, and then in 2006 trained at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Sisi served as a mechanized infantry commander and then as director of military intelligence. After the Egyptian revolution of 2011 and election of Mohamed Morsi to the Egyptian presidency, Sisi was appointed Minister of Defence by Morsi on 12 August 2012, replacing the Mubarak-era Hussein Tantawi.