Unraveling Abdel Fattah El-Sisi's Complex Legacy in Egyptian Politics We weren’t able to create a summary for you. Refresh your page to try again. AbdelFattahel-Sisi's official portrait as Minister of Defense, 2014. On 12 August 2012, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi made a decision to replace the Mubarak-era Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the Egyptian Armed Forces, with then little-known Sisi. Egyptian president Abdelfattahel-Sisi rose from a low level military officer to the president f of Egypt, which is the most populous country in the arab wo... AbdelFattahel-Sisi, president of Egypt since June 2014, had visions about leading his country long before the 2013 coup that brought him to power.AbdelFattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi, the sixth president of Egypt, was born in Cairo on 19 November 1954. Egyptian President AbdelFattahel-Sisi attends the funeral of former President Hosni Mubarak east of Cairo on February 26, 2020 [Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh]. In 2003, then-president Hosni Mubarak collapsed while delivering a televised address before the Egyptian parliament. Egypt's President AbdelFattah al-Sisi will not seek a third term in office, he said 7 November 2017. Sisi said in the interview that he does not intend to change the Egyptian constitution and will preserve the two four-year presidential terms outlined in the document. Egyptian President AbdelFattahel-Sisi at the “Golden Parade” in Cairo.A new capital is being built inEgypt —“the Administrative” (al-idariyyah) for lack of a better name as yet—replete with architectural symbols of both stark modernity and references to pharaonic Egypt. AbdelFattah al-Sisi, egyptian military officer who became Egypt’s de facto leader in July 2013, after the country’s military removed Pres. He was elected president in May 2014 and elected to a second term in March 2018. AbdelFattahel-Sisi’spolitical rise and ascension to power mark a significant chapter in modern Egyptian history. Emerging from a military background, he navigated complexpolitical landscapes to establish himself as a dominant leader.