Ahmed Tharwat Commentary
On June 17, 2012, Mohammed Morsi was elected as the president of Egypt. On the same date seven years later, having been ousted from that role, he died in court while on trial for bogus charges such as conspiring with Qatar and Hamas, breaking out of jail, and letting prisoners escape during the chaos of the 2011 revolution.
Morsi did not have much leadership experience, he wasn’t a military man, he showed a great level of incompetence and political naivety, he was nicknamed the stepen, accidental president . But he was a symbol and a product of that revolution, which gave Egyptians some hope. He wasn’t just the first and only democratically elected civilian president in modern Egyptian history, he also was the first Egyptian president to die since 1981. Then it was Anwar Sadat, assassinated by a military officer during a parade. Hosni Mubarak then took the helm and ruled Egypt for 30 years without meaningful elections, keeping peace with Israel and war with his own people. brought the country to ruins and irrelevance — economically, politically, educationally, culturally and militarily — and was toppled by the January 25 Revolution in 2011. Are you still with me? Believe me, it gets more interesting. Morsi, who had received his doctoral engineering degree from the University of Southern California and came from the Freedom and Justice Party — the political wing of the banned Muslim Brotherhood — had been elected by more than 12 million Egyptians over his opponent, a former military general, Ahmed Shafik. Continue reading The Tragic Death of President Mohamed Morsi !! Video commentary !!
