Talk:Abdel Fattah el-Sisi/Archive 1

Archive 1

Conjecture gone rampant

Where are the wise guy editors? Crickets on such a historic event is soooo odd.71.23.89.97 (talk) 02:04, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

NPV issues here

Article needs work. There seems to be some editorializing going on such as "It is true that the Morsy government was democratically elected (though many believe it was rigged), yet in the first few months of his presidency Morsy showed clear indications that he was unfairly favoring members of his party (giving them a majority of critical roles in the country) among other changes that would pose challenges to truly democratic elections in the future." in italics no less.

Not to mention that is just a hideous run-on sentence to begin with. Scanlyze (talk) 21:15, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism

Due to recent events, this article is being assaulted by trolls, please take proper action. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.228.9.99 (talk) 23:14, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 18 August 2013

please change July 2013 military coup to 30th June revolution. 197.35.141.79 (talk) 19:15, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{edit semi-protected}} template. See also Talk:2013_Egyptian_coup_d'état RudolfRed (talk) 19:47, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Virginity Tests

Is this the same General who did "virginity tests" on female protesters, who were arrested while they were protesting against the military rule of Mr. Mubarek ? Maybe he is now testing whether the Egyptians protesting against his junta are bullet proof ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.238.164.220 (talk) 09:55, 29 July 2013 (UTC) He defended the army operations saying that "the virginity-test procedure was done to protect the girls from rape as well as to protect the soldiers and officers from rape accusations", http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19256730 According to Major General al-Sisi, people alleging human rights abuses at the hands of the army should complain to the military prosecutor, and can also post their complaints on the SCAF Facebook page. http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/egypt-military-pledges-stop-forced-virginity-tests-2011-06-27 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cianmau (talk • contribs) 21:43, 20 August 2013 (UTC)

Rank

When did he get promoted to field marshall? When I read this article just a few days ago, I thought it said he was still a general. Q·L·1968 ☿ 20:54, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Today. [Egypt's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi receives a promotion] Amr Tarek^{Say Hello!}, 21:04, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

Perfect! Thanks. Q·L·1968 ☿ 21:40, 27 January 2014 (UTC)

I hate trampled names

I can't change the title, el-Sisi is actually El-Sisi, if someone could do this it'd be terrific, because I tried the DISPLAYTITLE template thing and couldn't get it done so, wiser wikipedians please help. Thank you in advance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mohamed Attia (talk • contribs) 06:51, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 March 2014

Mido adel esm (talk) 13:02, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Not done: as you have not requested a change.
If you want to suggest a change, please request this, IN ENGLISH, in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".
Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to any article. - Arjayay (talk) 13:11, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 March 2014

Ahranot (talk) 13:07, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Not done: as you have not requested a change.
If you want to suggest a change, please request this, IN ENGLISH, in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".
Please also cite reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to any article. - Arjayay (talk) 13:11, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 March 2014

I delete a previous edit by anonymous user inserting insults and misleading facts in ARABIC name. Please simi block article for a while

197.32.209.66 (talk) 21:29, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Cannolis (talk) 22:56, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Not done: requests for increases to the page protection level should be made at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. --ElHef (Meep?) 03:17, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 March 2014

84.36.214.37 (talk) 10:36, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done by another

Semi-protected edit request on 29 March 2014

DuatGuardian (talk) 11:06, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

 Done By another

Semi-protected edit request on 28 March 2014

please replace Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi (Arabic: عبد الفتاح سعيد حسين خليل السيسي

Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi (Arabic: عبد الفتاح سعيد حسين خليل السيسي also known as Balaha https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdel_Fattah_al-Sissi Faresalandlos (talk) 16:47, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Note: This article is no longer Semi-Protected, so you can now edit the article yourself, but please ensure that any additions are properly sourced, to reliable sources and you maintain a neutral point of view - Arjayay (talk) 13:47, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 March 2014

The bitch Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi (Arabic: عبد الفتاح سعيد حسين خليل السيسي,الشهير : بالسيسي‎, Abd al-Fattāḥ Sa'īd Ḥusayn Khalīl Al-Sīsī, IPA: [ʕæbdel.fætˈtæːħ sæˈʕiːd ħeˈseːn xæˈliːl esˈsiːsi];, born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian military commander who was Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces, as well as Minister of Defence, from 12 August 2012 until 26 March 2014.[4] As head of the armed forces, he played the leading role in ousting Islamist President Mohamed Morsi in a July 2013 coup d'état, following mass protests against Morsi and his government. El-Sisi was subsequently appointed as First Deputy Prime Minister, while remaining Minister of Defense. El-Sisi confirmed on 26 March 2014 that he will run for president in the 2014 presidential election.[4] After his announcement to run for president, a viral hashtag #انتخبوا_العرص (i.e. #vote_for_the_pimp) has spread all over Egypt and some other countries by anti-coup activists calling El-Sisi العرص (i.e. the pimp). The hashtag made over 600 million impressions - as reported keyhole and international media - and created huge social media war between his supporters and anti-coup activists.

Contents [hide] 1 Early life and military education 2 Career 2.1 Main command positions 2.2 Minister of defense 3 July 2013 3.1 El-Sisi as a popular hero 3.2 Demands to run for president 3.3 Call for mass demonstrations 4 6 October war anniversary 5 Personal life 6 Medals and decorations 7 See also 8 References 9 External links Early life and military education

[icon] This section requires expansion with: More info needed on early life: childhood, parents , school etc.. (January 2014) El-Sisi was born in Cairo on 19 November 1954.[5] He graduated from the Egyptian Military Academy in 1977. He attended the following courses: General Command and Staff Course, Egyptian Command and Staff College, 1987;[6] General Command and Staff Course, Joint Command and Staff College, United Kingdom, 1992;[6] War Course, Fellowship of the Higher War College, Nasser's Military Sciences Academy, Egypt, 2003;[6] War Course, US Army War College, United States, 2006;[6] Egyptian Military Attaché in Riyadh, KSA;[6] Basic Infantry Course, USA.[6] Career

El-Sisi received his commission as a military officer in 1977 serving in the mechanized infantry, specializing in anti-tank warfare and mortar warfare. He became Commander of the Northern Military Region-Alexandria in 2008 and then Director of Military Intelligence and Reconnaissance. El-Sisi was the youngest member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces of Egypt. While a member of the Supreme Council, he made controversial statements regarding allegations that Egyptian soldiers had subjected detained female demonstrators to forced virginity tests. He is reported to have told Egypt's state-owned newspaper that "the virginity-test procedure was done to protect the girls from rape as well as to protect the soldiers and officers from rape accusations."[5] He was the first member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to admit that the invasive tests had been carried out.[7] Main command positions

Abdel Fattah El-Sisi as a General Commander, 509th Mechanized Infantry Battalion[6] Chief of Staff, 134th Mechanized Infantry Brigade[6] Commander, 16th Mechanized Infantry Brigade[6] Chief of Staff, 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division[6] Chief of Staff, Northern Military Zone[6] Deputy Director, Military Intelligence and Reconnaissance Department[6] Minister of defense On 12 August 2012, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi made a decision to replace Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the head of the Egyptian Armed Forces, with El-Sisi, and promoted him to the rank of general.[8] El-Sisi also took the post of Minister of Defense and Military Production in the Qandil Cabinet. After El-Sisi was appointed as minister of defense on 12 August 2012, there were concerns in Egypt regarding rumors that General El-Sisi was the hand of the Muslim Brotherhood in the army, though El-Sisi has always declared that the Egyptian army stands on the side of Egyptian people. On 28 April 2013, during celebrations for Sinai Liberation Day, El-Sisi said that, "the hand that harms any Egyptian must be cut".[9] This statement was taken by Morsi opponents as a clarification that the Army is in support of the people. However, the statement was interpreted by Morsi supporters as a warning to Morsi opponents that El-Sisi would not allow an overthrow of the government. He remained in office under the new government formed after the coup that deposed Morsi, and led by Hazem Al Beblawi. He was also appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt. On 27 January 2014, he was promoted to the rank of field marshal.[10] July 2013

Main articles: June 2013 Egyptian protests and 2013 Egyptian coup d'état On 30 June 2013, in response to the Tamarod movement, mass demonstrations took place in Tahrir Square and Heliopolis Palace in Cairo as well as in other Egyptian cities including Alexandria, Port Said and Suez. Clashes took place around Egypt. Soon afterwards, the Egyptian Army issued a 48-hour ultimatum which aired on television that gave the country's political parties until 3 July to meet the demands of the anti-Morsi demonstrators. The Egyptian military also threatened to intervene if the dispute was not resolved by then.[11] On 2 July 2013, the presidency rejected the Egyptian Army's 48-hour ultimatum and Morsi made a late speech declaring that he would "defend the legitimacy of his elected office with his life and he won't step down". On 3 July 2013, the Egyptian Army declared that as the political parties had failed to meet the deadline and Morsi had failed to build a national consensus for his leadership, they had to overthrow Morsi. The Egyptian Army then installed Adly Mansour as the interim head of state in his place, and ordered the arrest of many members of the Muslim Brotherhood on charges of "inciting violence and disturbing general security and peace."[12] El-Sisi announced on television that the president had "failed to meet the demands of the Egyptian people" and declared that the constitution would be suspended, which was met by acceptance from anti-Morsi demonstrations and condemnation from pro-Morsi supporters in Rabia Al-Adwyyiah. Many Islamist movements, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Wasat Party and al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, rejected the change of regime as a military coup, which they described as "illegitimate" and "anti-democratic".[13] In November 2013, Morsi claimed to have been kidnapped by the Armed Forces and held at the Republican Guard headquarters a day before the army announced his removal; he claimed that he had been kept there until 5 July and forcibly moved again to a naval base where he spent the next four months.[14][15][16] The Egyptian Armed Forces later gave Catherine Ashton, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy for the European Union, permission to meet him. Ashton later stated that Morsi was doing well.[17] The new Prime Minister Hazem Al Beblawi decided to split the Ministry of Defense and Military Production into two ministries. El-Sisi retained the defense portfolio, while Air Marshall Reda Hafez received the military production portfolio until El-Sisi got it back again on 3 December 2013 following Hafez's death. Beblawi also named El-Sisi as First Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt. He was sworn in on 16 July 2013.[18] El-Sisi as a popular hero The anti-Morsi demonstrators on the streets welcomed El-Sisi's overthrow of Morsi with celebrations and carried posters of El-Sisi, chanting "The Army and the People are one hand" and supporting General El-Sisi. On social networks, thousands of Egyptians changed their profile pictures to pictures of El-Sisi, while others started campaigns requesting that El-Sisi be promoted to the rank of field marshal, while others hoped he would be nominated in the next presidential elections.[19] Cupcakes, chocolate and necklaces bearing the "CC" initials were created, restaurants in Egypt named sandwiches after him, blogs shared his pictures, and columns, op-eds, TV shows and interviews discussed the "new idol of the Nile valley" in the Egyptian mainstream media.[19][20][21][22] On 6 December 2013, El-Sisi was named "Time Person of the Year" in Time magazine's annual reader poll.[23] The accompanying article noted "Sisi's success reflected the genuine popularity of a man who led what was essentially a military coup in July against the democratically elected government of then President Mohammed Morsi.".[24] Demands to run for president

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel participates in an arrival honors ceremony with Egyptian Minister of Defense, Abdel Fatah Saeed Al Sisy, in Cairo, Egypt, 24 April 2013 "Kamel Gemilak" or (Complete your kindness) along with "A nation's demand" and "El-Sisi for president" are campaigns that were started aiming to gather signatures in order to press El-Sisi, who has said he has no desire to govern, to run.[25] Many politicians and parties including Egyptians and non-Egyptians had announced their support for El-Sisi in the event of his running for president, including the National Salvation Front,[26] Tamarod,[27] Amr Moussa, the previous candidate for the presidency,[28] Hamdeen Sabahi,[29] Abdel-Hakim Abdel-Nasser (son of President Gamal Abdel Nasser),[30] unsuccessful presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik,[31][32] Prime Minister Hazem Al Beblawi,[33] Naguib Sawiris,[34] the Free Egyptians Party, The Revolutionary Forces Bloc,[35] and the Russian president Vladimir Putin.[36] However, Hamdeen Sabahi may run against him in a future presidential race.[37] Subsequently, Sabahi has issued criticisms of Sisi and his potential candidacy by expressing doubt about Sisi's commitment to democracy, arguing that the general bears a measure of direct and indirect responsibility for the human rights violations carried out during the period of the interim government, and denouncing what he deems to be the transitional government's hostility toward the goals of the revolution.[38][39][40] Kamel Gemilak has claimed to have collected 26 million signatures asking Sisi to run for president.[41] On 21 January 2014, Kamel Gemilak organized a mass conference call in Cairo International Stadium to call on El-Sisi to run for president.[42] In 6 February 2014, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Seyassah has announced that El-Sisi will run for president saying that he had said that no alternative but to meet the wishes of the Egyptian people for him to run.[43][44] Colonel Ahmed Ali the Egyptian army's spokesperson later denied the news saying that it's not accurate through his official Facebook page.[45] Call for mass demonstrations On 24 July 2013, during a speech at a military parade, General El-Sisi called for mass demonstrations to grant the Egyptian military and police a "mandate" to crack down on terrorism.[46] Some interpreted this to mean that El-Sisi felt the need of the people to prove to the world that it wasn't a coup but the popular will, while the statement was seen by others as contradicting the military's pledges to hand over power to civilians after removing Morsi and as indicating an imminent crackdown against Islamists.[47][48] The reactions to El-Sisi's announcement ranged from open support from the Egyptian presidency[49] and the Tamarod movement[50] to rejection, not only by the Muslim Brotherhood,[47] but also by the Salafi Al-Nour Party,[51] the moderate Strong Egypt Party,[52] the revolutionary April 6 Youth Movement[53] and Egyptian human rights groups.[54] However, on 26 July 2013, millions rallied across Egypt, responding to El-Sisi's call, a gathering which was described as "the largest crowds in 2½ years of upheaval" and even bigger numbers than 30 June's numbers.[55] During the August 2013 Egyptian raids, the Egyptian military under El-Sisi's command joined with the national police in removing camps of Muslim Brotherhood supporters from sit-ins being held throughout the country. This action resulted in rapidly escalating violence that eventually led to the deaths of 638 people, of whom 595 were civilians and 43 police officers, with at least 3,994 injured. Some liberal activists who had supported the ousting of Morsi publicly voiced their concerns: "I'm not happy when they use violence. And I'm worried about them using it again," said Gamal Eid, a well-known human rights activist.[56][57][58] Robert Fisk described General El-Sisi as at a loss, but that a massacre would go down in history as an infamy.[59] Lee Smith concluded that "Egypt’s New Leader Is Unfit to Rule".[60] In a file published by the State Information Services, the government explained the raids by claiming that police went on to use force dispersing the sit-in on 14 August 2013, with the least possible damage, causing hundreds of civilians and police to fall as victims, while Muslim Brotherhood supporters imposed a blockade for 46 days against the people in Al Nahda and Rabaa al-Adawiya squares under the name of sit-in where tens of protests took to the street daily hindered the lives of the Egyptians, causing unrest and the death or injury of many victims as well as damage to public and private properties.[61] A poll by the Egyptian Centre for Public Opinion Research later showed that 67 percent of Egyptians were satisfied concerning the methods by which the Rabaa al-Adaweya and Nahda sit-ins had been dispersed.[62][63][64] On 3 August 2013, El-Sisi gave his first interview since the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi. Speaking to The Washington Post, he criticized the U.S. response and accused the Obama administration of disregarding the Egyptian popular will and of providing insufficient support amid threats of a civil war, saying, "You left the Egyptians. You turned your back on the Egyptians, and they won't forget that."[65] 6 October war anniversary

On 6 October war anniversary, El-Sisi announced that the army was committed to the popular mandate of 26 July 2013: "We are committed, in front of God, to the Egyptian and Arab people that we will protect Egypt, the Egyptians and their free will."[66] During the anniversary celebration, General El-Sisi invited the Emirati, Iraqi, Bahraini, Moroccan and Jordanian defense ministers to celebrate with Egypt. During his speech he said in a warning way that the Egyptian people "will never forget who stood with them or against them". El-Sisi described 6 October as "a day to celebrate for all Arabs", hoping for the "unification of Arabs". He also thanked "Egypt's Arab brothers, who stood by its side." El-Sisi commented on the relationship between the Egyptian army and Egyptian people, saying that it is hard to break. El-Sisi said: “We would die before you [the Egyptian people] would feel pain". He also compared the Egyptian army to the Pyramid, saying that "it cannot be broken".[66] Personal life

Unlike previous leaders, El-Sisi has been protective of the privacy of his family.[67] El-Sisi is married and the father of three sons and one daughter. El-Sisi comes from a religious family and frequently inserts Quranic verses into informal conversations;[68] El-Sisi's wife wears the traditional Islamic Hijab. He is known to be quiet and is often called the Quiet General. He loves to read about history and law. Due to being orderly, Sisi was often called General Sisi when he was young.[67] According to Sherifa Zuhur, a professor at the War College, when El-Sisi attended, many American officers expressed doubts that Muslims could be democratic, which he disputed, and he and others were critical of decisions made in Iraq. Zuhur also had the impression that El-Sisi supported gradual move towards pluralism.[69] Medals and decorations

25 April Decoration (Liberation of Sinai)[6] Distinguished Service Decoration[6] Military Duty Decoration, Second Class[6] Military Duty Decoration, First Class[6] Longevity and Exemplary Medal[6] Liberation of Kuwait Medal[6] Silver Jubilee of October War Medal[6] Golden Jubilee of 23 July Revolution[6] Silver Jubilee of the Liberation of Sinai Medal[6] 25 January Revolution Medal[6] See also

Muhammad Naguib Abd al-Halim Abu Ghazala Gamal Abdel Nasser Anwar Sadat Saad El Shazly Islamist unrest in Egypt (2013–present) August 2013 Egyptian raids References

Jump up ^ Associated Press. Hosted2.ap.org. Retrieved 15 August 2013. Jump up ^ "Abdel Fattah al Sisi: New commander of the armed forces". Egypt Independent. Retrieved 7 October 2012. ^ Jump up to: a b "BREAKING l Sedki Sobhy promoted to general army chief". Aswat Masriya. 26 March 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2014. ^ Jump up to: a b "Egypt's El-Sisi bids military farewell, says he will run for presidency". Ahram Online. 26 March 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2014. ^ Jump up to: a b "Profile: Egypt armed forces chief Abdul Fattah al-Sisi". BBC. 21 August 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "Profile: Egypt armed forces chief Abdul Fattah Al-Sisi". State Information Service. 5 November 2013. Retrieved 5 November 2013. Jump up ^ Egypt amnesty virginity BBC. 27 June 2011. Jump up ^ "Morsy assumes power: Sacks Tantawi and Anan, reverses constitutional decree and reshuffles SCAF". Daily News Egypt. 12 August 2012. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Jump up ^ "Al-Sisi: The hand that harm any egyptian must be cut". Jump up ^ "Egypt's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi receives a promotion ahead of likely presidency bid". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 27 January 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2014. Jump up ^ "Profile: General Abdel Fattah Al Sisi". Al Jazeera. 3 July 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2013. Jump up ^ "Egypt Orders Mass Arrests of Muslim Brotherhood Members". Al Jazeera. 3 July 2013. Retrieved 3 July 2013. Jump up ^ "Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood rejects "military coup" against Morsi". Xinhua News Agency. 5 July 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2013. Jump up ^ "Profile: Morsi claims to be kidnapped". The Jerusalem Post. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2013. Jump up ^ "Profile: Morsi claims to be kidnapped". Press TV. 14 November 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2013. Jump up ^ Morsi Claims He Was Kidnapped Before Being Removed By Army Huffington Post. 13 November 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2014. Jump up ^ Sarah El Deeb.(30 July 2013).Catherine Ashton Meets With Mohammed Morsi, Says Egypt's Ex-President Doing Well Huffington Post. Retrieved 30 January 2014. Jump up ^ "Cabinet ministers sworn in". Daily News Egypt. 16 July 2013. Retrieved 17 July 2013. ^ Jump up to: a b "The Cult of Sisi". Jump up ^ "Catch the Al Sisi mania". Ahram online. Jump up ^ "El Sisi mania goes on and on". Egyptian Chronicle. 25 October 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2014. Jump up ^ "It's 'Sisi-Mania,' as Nationalist Fervor Sweeps Through Egypt". The Lede. Retrieved 30 January 2014. Jump up ^ Rayman, Noah (5 December 2013). "Egypt's Sisi Wins Reader Poll for TIME Person of the Year". Time. Retrieved 7 December 2013. Jump up ^ Khalil, Ashraf (6 December 2013). "How Egypt's Gen. al-Sisi Won TIME's Person of the Year Poll". Time. Retrieved 7 December 2013. Jump up ^ "Egypt army chief El-Sisi pushed towards presidential run". Ahram online. Jump up ^ "NSF will back Sisi if he runs for president, Badawy says". Jump up ^ "We support Sabahi if Sisi does not run for presidency: Tamarod Founder". Jump up ^ "Moussa urges Sisi to run for president". Jump up ^ "Sabahi to support Al-Sisi if he runs for presidency". Middle East Monitor. Jump up ^ "Egypt army chief El-Sisi pushed towards presidential run". Jump up ^ "Shafiq will not run for presidency if Al-Sisi nominates himself". Daily News Egypt. 9 September 2013. Jump up ^ "Mubarak's last PM backs army's Sisi for Egyptian president". Jump up ^ Egypt’s PM backs Sisi for president Al Arabiya. 23 January 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014. Jump up ^ "Swiris Backs AlSisi". CNN. Jump up ^ "Revolutionary Forces Bloc declares support for Sisi's bid for president". TheCairoPost. Jump up ^ "Putin backs Sisi's 'run' for Egyptian presidency". Agence France-Presse. Jump up ^ David Kirkpatrick. (28 January 2014). Egypt’s Ruler Eyes Riskier Role: The Presidency The New York Times. Retrieved 30 January 2014. Jump up ^ "Sabbahi: I am the only presidential candidate so far in Egypt". Ahram Online. 19 January 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2014. Jump up ^ "Politicians defend possible Sisi candidacy". The Cairo Post. 19 January 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2014. Jump up ^ "Egyptian candidate questions Sisi's commitment to democracy". Reuters. 13 March 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2014. Jump up ^ "Misr Balady Front calls on Al-Sisi to run for presidency". Reuters. 21 January 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2014. Jump up ^ "Supporters urge Egypt general to run for president". The Washington Post. 21 January 2014. Jump up ^ "Egypt's army chief Sisi to run for president". Al Jazeera. 5 February 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2014. Jump up ^ "Egypt army chief Sisi says will run for president – report". Reuters. 6 February 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2014. Jump up ^ "Sisi yet didn't decide (AR)". Jump up ^ "Showdown in Cairo: Egyptian general demands permission to take on the ‘terrorists’". The Independent. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013. ^ Jump up to: a b "Egyptian General Calls for Mass Protests". The New York Times. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Jump up ^ "Army chief's rally call finds backing in Egypt press". BBC. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Jump up ^ "Egypt's presidency calls for protests against 'terrorism'". Ahram online. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Jump up ^ "'Rebel' endorses El-Sisi's call for Friday demos". Ahram online. 25 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Jump up ^ "Egypt's Nour Party and 6 April reject El-Sisi's call for Friday rallies". Ahram online. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Jump up ^ "Egypt's Abol Fotouh warns against army-called rally". Chicago Tribune. 24 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Jump up ^ "6 April Youth Movement to stay off the streets on Friday". Daily News Egypt. 26 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Jump up ^ "Egypt rights groups voice misgiving about army's call for rallies". Ahram online. 26 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Jump up ^ "Egypt rights groups voice misgiving about army's call for rallies". Associated Press. 26 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Jump up ^ "Army embrace starts to worry some Egyptians". Reuters. 15 July 2013. Retrieved 26 July 2013. Jump up ^ "Death toll from Egypt violence rises to 638: Health ministry". Al-Ahram. 15 August 2013. Archived from the original on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2013. Jump up ^ David D. Kirkpatrick (15 August 2013). "Islamists Debate Their Next Move in Tense Cairo". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 19 August 2013. Jump up ^ Fisk, Robert (8 August 2013). "In Egypt General al-Sisi is at a loss – but a massacre on Eid would bring too much infamy". The Independent. Jump up ^ Smith, Lee (20 August 2013). "Viewpoint: Egypt’s New Leader Is Unfit to Rule". Time. Jump up ^ State Information Services (15 August 2013). "Sit in Dispersal". State Information Services. Retrieved 19 August 2013. Jump up ^ "Poll: 67% of Egyptians satisfied about method of ending pro-Morsy sit-ins". Jump up ^ "Egyptian opinion on sit-in dispersals: Finding truth in reported facts". Daily News Egypt. 26 August 2013. Jump up ^ "67% of Egyptians are satisfied with dispersal of Brotherhood sit-ins: Baseera". Ahram online. Jump up ^ "Rare interview with Egyptian Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi". The Washington Post. 3 August 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2014. ^ Jump up to: a b "Egypt rights groups voice misgiving about army's call for rallies". Daily News Egypt. 7 October 2013. Retrieved 7 October 2013. ^ Jump up to: a b "The Quiet General". Newsweek. 16 August 2013. Jump up ^ "Sisi's Islamist Agenda for Egypt". Foreign Affairs. Jump up ^ Egypt’s army: Ambitious men in uniform The Economist. 41.42.91.253 (talk) 11:53, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Note: This article is no longer Semi-Protected, so you can now edit the article yourself, but please ensure that any additions are properly sourced, to reliable sources and you maintain a neutral point of view - Arjayay (talk) 13:50, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Note: This article has been re-protected following further vandalism
If you want to suggest a change, please request this in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ" do not copy the entire article - this is not a spot-the-difference contest.
Please also cite reliable sources to back up your specific request, without which no information should be added to any article. - Arjayay (talk) 17:15, 29 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 March 2014

Goodlive4 (talk) 00:09, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Not done: Please make your request in English. --ElHef (Meep?) 02:34, 30 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 4 April 2014

197.34.189.242 (talk) 07:08, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Cannolis (talk) 07:14, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

How can we put it under full protection ? Andri Kuawko (talk) 17:31, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

There's a discussion going on at WP:ANI#Abdel Fattah el-Sisi already. It may well wind up full-protected as a result given the recent article history. In the meantime, everyone needs to stop edit warring this article. I don't think the edit that's being bounced around is blatant vandalism (though it's obviously controversial), so even if you think you're right, edit warring is not acceptable. --ElHef (Meep?) 18:29, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected addition request after "he will run for president in the 2014 presidential election." on 10 April 2014

Please add the below paragraph after the wording "...he will run for president in the 2014 presidential election." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ramy23 (talk • contribs) 12:00, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

After his announcement to run for president, a viral hashtag #انتخبوا_العرص (i.e. #vote_for_the_pimp) has spread all over Egypt and some other countries by anti-coup activists calling El-Sisi العرص (i.e. the pimp). The hashtag made over 600 million impressions - as reported by keyhole and international media - and created huge social media war between his supporters and anti-coup activists.

References

Ramy23 (talk) 11:19, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Not done for now: Since this has been brought up before and as far as I understand the history of this article could be something that merits discussion, I suggest that other editors voice their opinions in regard to the wording. Sam Sailor ^Sing 08:25, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Locking article is not enough, it seems. Urgent edit required

The second line reads " Abdelfattah el sisi better known as el 3ars". translation " better known as the pimp" An insult which cam about on the hands of the brotherhood.

So is locking wikipedia articles not enough now? High-profiled contributors can be that juvenile and get away with it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.218.177.247 (talk) 10:17, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

I looked it up [I am a native speaker of English) and it came up as "el ars". I had no clue what it meant, but I'll remove it now; the subject matter is already mentioned in the article anyways.David O. Johnson (talk) 10:21, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 May 2014

94.98.81.52 (talk) 11:19, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. — {{U|Technical 13}} ^{(t • e • c)} 11:55, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Bare links

There are a bunch of bare links of the page in the Early life and military education section; I tried using the Reflinks tool, but it didn't detect them for some reason. I'd appreciate it someone fixed them. Thanks, David O. Johnson (talk) 06:56, 25 May 2014 (UTC)

I converted the links myself, except for the one in Hebrew. David O. Johnson (talk) 06:50, 26 May 2014 (UTC)

"Popular hero" vs "pimp" edits

User Amrtarek constantly removes the "elect the pimp" part, even though it it has gone completely viral and is all over the news in Arab countries. The reason given is that it is an "offensive insult". This does not hold water on Wikipedia: Verifiable facts backed up by sources stay in the article, even if you find it offensive. Another thing is the "popular hero" bit, with "chocolate and cupcakes" and "sisi mania" stuff. This bit does not deserve three full paragraphs, and it is blatant POV-pushing, particularly the part where the NYT blog which starts with 2 positive paragraphs, and then has SIX negative paragraphs about Sisi. You cannot cherry-pick the "calls to elect Sisi as Egypt’s next president" sentence, and ignore the "yet another strong man" sentence further below. By removing the common criticisms, and adding three paragraphs of cherry-picked praise, the article is no longer neutral or encyclopaedic. Unflavoured (talk) 15:07, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

I agree about the possible pro-Sisi biasing in the article, but the removal of sourced content is wrong and should be discussed first to reach a consensus. I suggest you improve the part by adding the criticism instead of removing it. Also, the hashtag part doesn't deserve to make it into the lead section because introductions have to be as short as possible and should include only the notable things about this person. Fitzcarmalan (talk) 14:36, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

• Firstly, I am not necessary defending something I wrote, I didn't write the article alone, am against blanking or removing thing doesn't violate Wikipedia's policy.

• Secondly, about the "Pimp" thing, The word is very offensive insult In Arabic and that's why the article was removed, note again not me who deleted it, I requested the so and if it wasn't offensive it wouldn't have been deleted. whatever sourced is an insult not related to politics or whatever should be written, that's not information? I won't look up twitter and whenever I see an popular hashtag on whoever, i go and write it in his article, if so, numerous pro-Sisi have been trending, should we mention them?

• Thirdly, about the "popular hero" thing, This man is the most popular man in Egypt is no longer in doubt, and that's not bias, that's something you can easily find in any reliable sources, simply it's fact, and that's how it is exactly mentioned in most of the sources. CBS Huffington Post Fox News France24 MSN CSM Reuters The Jerusalem Post Reuters AlArabeya, you can't just deny his popularity, and the Sisi-Mania is notable enough to be mentioned. if you find only the pro-Sisi info available, you can mention the criticism Which is mentioned, but don't remove.

Per Wikipedia:COATRACK; Both Praise and criticism should be mentioned. but not offensive criticism. Amr Tarek^{Say Hello!}, 14:51, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

I'm having touble finding the section of the coatrack policy that says criticism cannot be offensive. That policy seems to mostly be about not using an article as a means to criticize something other than the subject of the article, and to keep balance between criticism and praise. Were you perhaps thinking of a different policy? -Lciaccio (talk) 21:09, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

The pimp part is back. I can't believe this is even debatable !!

Content non-neutral.

A lot of the content is non neutral and refer to Egyptian sources which clearly supports current authorities, specifically under the July 2013 section. There are many sentences that imply the pro-Morsi protests are the bad guys and pro-Sisi demonstrations are the goody folk that make up the most of the people. This is a clearly a proponent and a POV article or specifically July 2013 section of the article. I think the whole July 2013 section needs an overhaul but that's up to what the people here say. (?) StoneCold45 (talk) 23:47, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

I'll second this, stumbled upon his entry and am surprised how positive he is portrayed. Felt compelled enough to actually comment on it. I mean he's a dictator, Wikipedia is supposed to be an arbiter of neutrality and free speech. Something Sisi obviously doesn't care for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plvcolin (talk • contribs) 06:22, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Yes , I'm also seconding this. The whole thing sounds like marketing to me. But who is to take up the job and have their work taken down by the folk? well not me 162.234.114.208 (talk) 11:19, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Transliteration / transcription issues

In the article I read "Rabia Al-Adwyyiah", which I considered an apparent misspelling of "Rabia Al-Adwiyyah" and which I subsequently changed into that. Further on I came across the spellings "Rabaa al-Adawiya" and "Rabaa al-Adaweya". At least the last parts of the three expressions seem to reflect the same word in Arabic, and the first parts might as well.

Similarly, I read "Al Nahda" as well as "Nahda" (without the definite article).

Furthermore, the transliteration of the definite article does not look consistent to me. I came across: "Al ", "Al-", "al-", "El-", and "el-", with capital "A" or "E" as well as lower case "a" and "e" used indiscriminately whether or not preceded by another arabic word, thus "Abdel Fattah el-Sisi" vs. "Rabia Al-Adwiyyah", "Al-Azhar Mosque" vs. "al-Azhar University".

Who is knowledgeable enough in both / either Modern Standard Arabic and / or Egyptian Arabic to make the transliteration / transcription more consistent and the article more readable?Redav (talk) 11:17, 8 June 2014 (UTC)

It's pronounced as "Al" in Arabic, and "El" in Egyptian Arabic. the Egyptian one is more common. "Al" is more used in formal speaking, tv and so on. Sinai Horus ^〉〉〉 01:32, 3 July 2014 (UTC)

Sisi PR

This whole article reads like a PR pamphlet for Sisi! Could we try adding in something about the mass death sentences, the coup d'etat, or just the fact that he "won" the "election" with over 95% of the vote, after banning the opposition party? The article as it stands now is truly shameful propaganda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.234.62.130 (talk) 16:42, 22 June 2015 (UTC)

It was an election

The article says he won a poll, and the link for it says election. Please fix that point. The word poll needs to be changed to election — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fatanim (talk • contribs) 02:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Poll noun : /pəʊl/ : (often the polls) The process of voting in an election. -Oxford Dictionary.Sinai Horus ^〉〉〉 21:19, 30 June 2015 (UTC)

Where is his Jewish mentioned

Sissi is of Jewish ethnicity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.170.181 (talk) 23:32, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

Sources that claim that Sisi is Jewish are unreliable sources, and it's a fringe theory. Zakawer (talk) 10:56, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Urgent edit needed in introduction

The edit of 19 Jan, 2017 introduced a horrendously written, excessively detailed account of the coup to the introduction. A native English speaker and style-competent editor is needed to manage this paragraph. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.250.177.210 (talk) 20:15, 22 January 2017 (UTC)

Peter Hessler's profile at NYer, 1-2-17

Egypt’s Failed Revolution, published 1-2-2017, full copy. Lots of good insights into the man, his government and our ally. Defintely a good source to enlarge & improve our article! --Pete Tillman (talk) 02:09, 26 February 2017 (UTC)

Name

It is true that the article in Arab is always "al" (pronounced and written "el" in Arab countries were the "a" sound often is "e"). However, when "al" precedes a word beginning with "s", it becomes "as". The German and the Russian WPs thus write correctly "as-Sisi". Shouldn't we, too, demonstrate we are informed?? --Aflis (talk) 11:11, 16 March 2017 (UTC)

The al- definite article in Arabic

In response to the topic above,

• Firstly, the Wikipedia is not a source, so whatever the German or Russian Wikipedias say has no value as a source, however valuable these might be in other terms.
• Secondly, each language has its own conventions. That's why the plural of "pizza" in English is "pizzas" and not "pizze", the plural of "kugel" is "kugels" and not "kugeln" and so on. It is the same with names. It is the convention followed by the English language, as it would be virtually impossible for speakers to learn specific grammatical forms of names and words in countless other languages. Conventions are the result of usage by speakers of a given language and can change over time for a number of reasons. That's why we used to say "Mao Tse Tung", but now say "Mao Zegong", and now say "Mumbai" instead of "Bombay" (some terms buck the trend, which is why we still have the "Bombay Stock Exchange").
• But, thirdly and most importantly, it is incorrect to say *when "al" precedes a word beginning with "s", it becomes "as"*. That is not so. What occurs is that when the definite article "al" is followed by "S", the "l" sound in "al" falls away, so "al-Sisi" is pronounced as "assisi". The same happens when by "D", "N". It is the same process that gave us words such as "abbreviation", "accreditation", "assimilation", from "ad+____". Just like in English, the change to "al" does not happen with all consonants, that's why it is "administration" and not "ammistration". In Italian they went further, so they have "amministrazione".

I don't know what the convention is in German, but from what I can see there is no consistency here on the Wikipedia, as there is as-Suqailabiyya, and at-Tabari, but al-Shabaab and al-Dschaisch, which, if the usege were consistent should be "Ash-Shabaab" and "ad-Dschaisch" respectively. If there is any doubt, please consult these Egyptian sources, written by Egyptians in English

• State Information Service of the Arab Republic of Egypt, 1, 2
• Ministry of Communications of the Arab Republic of Egypt 1
• Daily News (Egypt) 1, 2
• Ahramoonline 1

I trust that this suffices to lay this matter to rest. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia (talk) 13:58, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Lead section

The lead section of this article was recently rewritten by editors with a strong pro-Sisi bias. This needs to be fixed. Charles Essie (talk) 02:33, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

@Charles Essie: it used to be far more straightforward. In particular I see all information on the crackdown that toppled the past government and brought him into power has been removed. Will restore as best I can. -Darouet (talk) 16:09, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Not removed - just hidden in pipelinks. -Darouet (talk) 17:20, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Also, as the section above demonstrates, he was and is regularly referred to as a dictator and that deserves mention in the lead. -Darouet (talk) 16:09, 4 April 2017 (UTC)

Newspapers and journalists describing Sisi as a dictator.

I agree with this very thorough examination. Many Western news outlets question the legitimacy of el-Sisi's rule, none of which is mentioned in the article, nor is there much critical of him. The article very much reads as if it was written by supporters in Egypt. I'm nominating it to be checked for neutrality.Tory kennedy (talk) 02:04, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

From a search on LexisNexis Academic, it appears as though hundreds of news sources may refer to el-Sisi as a dictator, but I notice that in this article, the term doesn't appear once. It's important to document what media say on the matter. I'm listing some news articles and opinion pieces below with relevant text. I hope editors will feel free to add their own sources, or comment below. -Darouet (talk) 17:56, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

News articles

• The Independent (London), May 10, 2014 Saturday, Why dictators hold elections: Sisi..., by Robert Fisk. "Why do dictators love elections? It's an old question in the Middle East, but it needs answering yet again when Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is going to win the Egyptian presidential election this month..."

• Inter Press Services (Johannesburg), January 5, 2015, Egypt; Doubling Down On Dictatorship in the Middle East, by Kitty Stapp. "For a moment, four years ago, it seemed that dictators in the Middle East would soon be a thing of the past... Four years after Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak's ouster, for example, the country once again has a president with a military pedigree and an even lower tolerance for political opposition than his predecessor."

• Daily Hurriyet (Turkey), 19 August 2013, Syrian rebels say coup in Egypt strengthens al-Asad. "Politically, Bashar al-Asad has become a role model to Arab dictators. What al-Asad and the Shabiha are to Syria, al-Sisi and axmen are to Egypt. A conviction is going around among Arab dictators that somehow the Arab Spring can be stopped. They include Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, which are in the group of the Friends of Syria. All of them have supported al-Sisi."

• The Courier Mail (Australia), February 18, 2015 Wednesday, West needs to watch rise of Russia's new model dictator, by Dennis Atkins. "When Vladimir Putin visited Egypt earlier this month, he presented his host President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with a gleaming state-of-the-art Kalashnikov assault rifle. The former Egyptian intelligence official turned newbie dictator couldn't have grinned more broadly."

• The Times (London), May 24, 2014 Saturday, Children of the revolution divided as Sisi prepares for his coronation, by Catherine Philp and Bel Trew. "That was enough to persuade him to support the military when it stepped in, amid a second popular uprising in 2013, to remove Mr Morsi. Now he works as a media strategist for Mr Sisi's presidential campaign. 'Transforming dreams into reality is different from dreaming,' he says of his journey from revolutionary to a leader many see as a dictator. 'Egypt needs a guardian' ... Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is considered by many as a dictator."

• The Christian Science Monitor, November 3, 2014 Monday, That joke isn't funny anymore... by Louisa Loveluck. "As popular strongman President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi completes his fifth month in office, many critics of Egypt's worsening human-rights record risk having their doors closed for good... Sisi is hardly the first Egyptian leader seeking to neuter the news. For decades, successive dictators ensured that the media broadly supported the government and its policies."

• Anadolu (Turkey), 7 October 2014, We Have Taken in More Refugees Than the Populations of Some European Countries, by Onur Orhan and Enes Duran. "Parliamentary Human Rights Commission Chairman Ustun stated that almost 2 million refugees had come to Turkey and that this figure was larger than the population of some European countries. '...if you turn a blind eye to cruel dictators like Al-Sisi, these massacres are going to keep on coming.'"

• Mail on Sunday (London), July 6 2014, Family beg Blair to help free BBC reporter held in Egyptian prison, by Glen Owen. "The family of the former BBC journalist whose imprisonment in Egypt has sparked global outrage made an impassioned plea last night to Tony Blair to use his relationship with the country's dictator to secure the reporter s release... The Egyptian government, headed by the President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, has ignored worldwide condemnation over the jailings."

• All Africa, 28 May 2014, Egypt; Further Attacks on Press Freedom - Writer "Nader Al-Fergany" Banned From Writing at Al-Ahram, by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI, Cairo). "Professor Nader Al-Fergany, chief of editorial team of the Arab Human Development Report sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), proclaimed last Sunday (May 25) that his articles were banned from being published by Al-Ahram newspaper. As said by the journalist, the ban was against the backdrop of his articles that criticize Field Marshal Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and the current regime... ANHRI believes that Al-Fergany's being banned from writing his article in Al-Ahram newspaper is part of the police state's practices, which started to be intensely returned back more than they were in Mubarak's era. The regime has adopted a different form of practicing restrictions on freedoms with the same old methods followed by the previous dictator presidents."

• Cumhuriyet (Turkey), 24 May 2015, Erdogan's concern is neither Mursi nor Egypt, by Semih Idiz. "There is certainly nothing to be defended about Egypt's Head of State Abd-al-Fattah Sisi, who came to power with a coup and who has tried to legitimize himself with the elections he has had conducted. He is, in the final analysis, a dictator in the classic sense..."

• The Independent (London), 24 July 2013, General Sisi accused of resembling a banana republic dictator..., by Alastair Beach. "According to [professor] El-Din Shahin, Gen al-Sisi's speech - which he delivered wearing wrap-around shades beneath the peak of his gold-embroidered khaki cap - showed he might even be angling for the presidency. 'He looked exactly like a general from a 1970s banana republic,' he said."

• The Telegraph (London), July 27, 2013, Killing of Morsi supporters raises spectre of all-out conflict, by Hugh Miles. "Many Egyptians who supported the coup are already having second thoughts now al-Sisi has been revealed as an unreconstructed military ruler just like his predecessors. The roots of the situation Egypt now finds itself in can be traced back decades. Poverty, social inequality and unemployment proliferated under a succession of military dictators."

• World Socialist Web Site, 3 December 2014, Egyptian dictator al-Sisi signs military, economic deals in Paris, by Kumaran Ira. "In his first trip to Europe, beginning last week in Rome, Egyptian dictator General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stopped in Paris on November 26-27, holding talks with Socialist Party (PS) President François Hollande, Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, top officials including the speakers of both houses of parliament, and French business leaders. The French and Italian governments hailed Sisi, who slaughtered thousands of protesters on the streets of Cairo during his July 2013 coup against Muslim Brotherhood (MB) President Mohamed Mursi, as a strategic partner."

• World Socialist Web Site, 3 June 2015, Egyptian dictator al-Sisi visits Berlin, by Johannes Stern. "In a commentary titled 'Dictator on the red carpet,' the Tagesspiegel describes how 'the new rabble rousers on the Nile happily indulge in their fantasies of extermination against a good third of their own population.' Thousands have disappeared 'into the torture dungeons never to return again,' while 'in the meantime the country has become a global record holder for death sentences,' and the judiciary has become a 'pseudo-legal backdrop for a limitless revenge campaign against all political dissidents.' Whoever protests does so at the risk of their own lives. Under the headline, 'Visit from the leader of a police state,' the Süddeutsche Zeitung added that the repression 'indiscriminately affects everyone who voices criticism of the regime: democracy activists, human rights activists, representatives of civil society, critical journalists, and intellectuals.' The police state was restored, and in its police stations people are being tortured, 'even murdered.'"

• Der Spiegel, August 19, 2015, Egyptian party chief views reasons for military dictatorship. (Interview between journalist Christoph Reuter and Abd al-Munim Abu al-Futuh). "[Reuter] But why was the military's retaliation so excessive? They did already hold power, after all. [Abu al-Futuh] Military chief Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi has now become Egypt's dictator, and is ruling with an iron fist."

• The Intercept, 31 March 2015, Obama Personally Tells the Egyptian Dictator that U.S. Will Again Send Weapons (and Cash) to his Regime, by Glenn Greenwald. "Today, the White House announced that during a telephone call with Egyptian despot Abdelfattah al-Sisi, President Obama personally lifted the freeze on transferring weapons to the regime, and also affirmed that the $1.3 billion in military aid will continue unimpeded."

• The Guardian, 26 December 2014, Worse than the dictators: Egypt’s leaders bring pillars of freedom crashing down, by Patrick Kingsley. "Egypt is enacting authoritarian laws at a rate unmatched by any regime for 60 years, legal specialists from four institutions have told the Guardian. Since the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, Morsi’s successors in the presidency, Adly Mansour and Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, have used the absence of an elected parliament to almost unilaterally issue a series of draconian decrees that severely restrict freedom of expression, association and assemby. The speed at which the decrees have been issued outpaces legislative frenzies under the dictators Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak…"

Opinion pieces

• The Toronto Star, June 3, 2014 Tuesday, Egypt's Man of Destiny, for a while; Voters exhausted by turmoil backed Sisi and stability, by Gwynne Dyer. "As an aspiring dictator who overthrew the country's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, only one year ago, Sisi needed a big turnout. At least 1,500 protesters have been shot dead in the streets, and a minimum of 16,000 political dissidents are in jail. Sisi has shut down a popular revolution and he needed to demonstrate massive public support for what he did."

• The West Australian (Perth), January 14, 2015 Wednesday, Egypt's dictator steers Islam clerics to reform. "When former general Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, President of Egypt, staged his coup in 2013 against the incumbent Mohammad Morsi I assumed he would be essentially just another thuggish military dictator who, to popular support, thwarted Morsi's growing Islamist tyranny. There was nothing new there, really. Military dictators in Egypt played important roles in the 20th century... ...Sisi might be a false dawn. Perhaps no Martin Luther figure will emerge from the imams of Islam as a result of his urging for a religious revolution. Sisi might turn out to be as corrupt as previous dictators..."

• The Independent (London), May 28, 2014 Wednesday, The Emperor's coronation..., by Robert Fisk. "And of course, Mr Sisi has offered what all folk want in hard times, especially Westerners and Israelis supposedly con-fronting the danger of Islamist terror in the Middle East: stability, stability, stability. Come to think of it - and speak not thus of our favourite Field Marshal - that's what dictators always offer... demanding the return of a dictator, another Nasser, another Sadat, another Mubarak - for he, too, remember, was a very senior member of the armed forces, the commander of the Egyptian air force, no less."

• Al Jazeera - English, April 21, 2015 Tuesday, Morsi's punishment is a crime, by Toby Cadman. "Egypt under the leadership of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has become synonymous with the strong-arm tactics of a military dictator, and one who fears the state's citizens... In effect, persecuting civilians for holding a contrary political view. To implement such a state policy, the Sisi regime has effectively hijacked the entire judiciary as an extension of the executive. The illegitimacy of these prosecutions, and the implausible basis of the charges, are apparent in the procedure adopted by the courts in that on occasion, over 200 defendants stood trial at the same time, and were convicted in a matter of hours. The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, as well numerous human rights groups, has highly criticised such a process as failing the very basic tenets of the rule of law."

• Akhir Lahzah (Khartoum), in Arabic 9 Jul 2013, Morsi: the wounded lion, by Fikri al-Gasim. "The interim president will do nothing without taking the cue from Gen Al-Sisi... He is now a worse dictator than Boumediene, the old historical dictator. The Egyptian army produced three dictatorships in 60 years."

• The Times (London), December 3, 2014 Wednesday, Goodbye, Arab Spring. We like dictators now, by Roger Boyes. "The ancien regime is back in favour and the current president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, has if anything become more brutal than his predecessor. Since Field Marshal Sisi's military took over the reins in July last year, 1,400 people have been killed, 15,000 jailed, hundreds sentenced to death. This month, a court in Alexandria jailed 78 children for taking part in demonstrations and obstructing traffic... And that's just how we like it, it seems. We have accepted Arab dictators at their own estimation..."

• The Telegraph (UK), December 19, 2013 Thursday, Who was the greatest champion of democracy in 2013?... by Brendan O'Neill. "Baroness Ashton encouraged al-Sisi and his junta to start 'a journey [towards] a stable, prosperous and democratic Egypt', somewhat overlooking the fact that al-Sisi came to power precisely through overriding the democratic will of the people and removing from power their elected leader. Other Western leaders have also given the nod of approval to the post-Morsi dictators of Egypt. US Secretary of State John Kerry, who is clearly in want of a dictionary, claimed the military's assumption of power was about 'restoring democracy'. Tony Blair, who spent much of his 10 misery-inducing years in Downing Street pontificating about any foreign regime that didn't respect democracy and human rights, has acted as the unofficial press officer for the new dictators of Egypt."

• The Evening Standard (London), January 16, 2014 Thursday, The West stands by as the military retakes Egypt, by Nabila Ramdani. "General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who stands to gain most from the referendum, launched a coup against the elected Muslim Brotherhood president Mohammed Morsi last July. Like Mubarak, who built his power base as the air force commander before running the country for 30 years, al-Sisi likes to deliver government at the end of a gun... Thus in a reversal of the natural order of democratic change, a "people's revolution" and the unseating of a despot has been followed by a military coup and an army-backed autocrat... helping to turn the clock back on the Egyptian revolution - ensuring that military autocracy, not representative democracy, triumphs."

• The New York Times, December 17 2014, Egypt's latest outrage. "Mr. Sisi overthrew Egypt's first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi; crushed the Muslim Brotherhood that supported Mr. Morsi; imprisoned countless secularists; cracked down on journalists and nongovernmental groups; and presided over a judiciary that sentenced hundreds of Brotherhood members to death after show trials while throwing out a murder case against the former dictator Hosni Mubarak. Regrettably, Congress is giving Mr. Sisi no serious reason to reconsider his methods of governing, which are even more authoritarian than Mr. Mubarak's, or to see the annual $1.3 billion in military aid as anything other than an entitlement."

• Foreign Policy, May 22 2015, Egypt's Sisi is getting pretty good at being a dictator, by Thanassis Cambanis. "The downsides of the new dictatorship’s governing approach will be toxic for Egypt over the long haul. Securing the cooperation of a balkanized bureaucracy is not the same as controlling it: Sisi has the courts in lockstep on his side, but at the expense of their reputation. The courts have clearly abetted military rule, disbanding the elected parliament on flimsy pretexts, barring popular presidential candidates, and certifying election laws that served the military’s aims."

• Seattle Globalist, 27 May 2015, Everybody loves el-Sisi: World leaders complicit as Egypt returns to dictatorship, by Patrick Hilsman. "...the international community has gone from praising for the courage of the Tahrir revolutionaries to a full blown endorsement of the return to naked dictatorship in Egypt."

• The Nation, June 5 2015, It’s Time for the US to Support Democracy, Not Dictatorship, in Egypt, by Rula Jebreal. "a regime that is far more tyrannical than Mubarak’s. Under the iron fist of Egyptian President Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, the military “deep state” that controls a full third of Egypt’s economy and dominates the halls of power is expanding its influence while the country’s oligarchs amass record wealth. The only democratically elected leader in Egypt’s 5,000-year history, Mohamed Morsi, was recently sentenced to death in a kangaroo court, while 40,000 political prisoners languish behind bars, facing torture and sexual abuse. All political alternatives to the current regime have been crushed through force and intimidation, while opposition leaders reside in exile. Egypt today is ruled by the same military-based regime in alliance with the same business interests as during the Mubarak era, except with less restraint than the late dictator showed when it comes to brutalizing nonviolent opponents."

• The New York Times, 19 March 2015, 'Abetting Egypt’s Dictatorship, by the Editorial Board. "...by largely supporting the country’s increasingly authoritarian government without question, the United States is pursuing an unprincipled and dangerous policy… Civil society and pro-democracy organizations have been threatened or forced to shut down. The news media is tightly controlled, and protests are banned. Nearly all leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement that became the dominant political force in the country after the Arab Spring protests, are locked up. While American officials have voiced concern about these trends in boilerplate language, they continue to provide Egypt with $1.3 billion in military aid each year and have only taken modest steps to condition the aid improvements in democratic governance. Much of the time, they merely express hope that progress is being made, while ignoring a level of brutality and repression that is worse than in the era of Hosni Mubarak… it is becoming increasingly clear that Egypt has become a dictatorship that justifies its abuses under the pretext of containing the threat posed by radical Islamists."

Sisi not a dictator

• Egypt State Information Service (Cairo), January 24, 2014, Egypt; 'Army Chief Under Pressure to Run for President' - PM. "Prime Minister Hazem al-Beblawy said Thursday that the spirit of the Arab Spring was still alive in his country and that the army chief likely to run for the presidency was no dictator, but more a De Gaulle figure. 'Sisi is under popular pressure to run for presidency. This is like De Gaulle and Eisenhower,' he said, referring to the French and US war heroes who later took political office."

Additional discussion

I'll continue to look and see what sources say about whether el-Sisi is a dictator, isn't, or is somewhere in between. In this way we can have some basis for describing the nature of his rule in Egypt. -Darouet (talk) 17:56, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 3 external links on Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20160615034422/http://www.baseera.com.eg/pdf_poll_file_en/president%20approval%20rate-%20April2016-%20En.pdf to http://www.baseera.com.eg/pdf_poll_file_en/president%20approval%20rate-%20April2016-%20En.pdf
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140712083910/http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/36975-140712-egypt-jordan-urge-world-to-intervene-in-gaza to http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/36975-140712-egypt-jordan-urge-world-to-intervene-in-gaza
• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20140514121700/http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20140514205035 to http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20140514205035

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 02:21, 25 June 2017 (UTC)

Could we use a proper Infobox photo?

I tried earlier to use a different photo than the one used in the infobox, someone reverted it back due to low-res and outdated, and I get the point really, but still convinced that the photo used is improper.
So, I have a new photo. But before editing, could you please tell me if it's proper to be used or not?
here is the data of the new image I want to be used:
Link: http://static.kremlin.ru/media/events/photos/big2x/AKEU1xcNy2XUS7XvhAjzpui3vaUF1QlS.jpg
Date: September 4, 2017
Resolution: 1880 X 1160 (could be cropped)
Source: Official Internet Resources of the President of Russia website (http://en.kremlin.ru/catalog/persons/379/events/55521/photos/50092)
License: All content on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.
Thanks.
Taha (talk) 01:10, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

As per this Wikipedia page "Images of living persons should not be used out of context to present a person in a false or disparaging light.".
This is exactly what I see wrong in the current infobox photo.
Could any experienced Wikian here comment on this? am I right or not?
Taha (talk) 00:07, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 January 2018

also known as Balaha 41.34.68.61 (talk) 10:51, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 January 2018

also known as Balaha 41.34.68.61 (talk) 10:50, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.  Ivecos (t) 12:39, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 29 January 2018

also known as Balaha 45.247.212.58 (talk) 09:54, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

 Not done: We're not adding any unsourced nicknames, so stop asking.  Ivecos (t) 10:01, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Further Information : now there is the new election And The president will be elected for the second time . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.222.211.137 (talk) 11:31, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion:

• Abdel fattah elsisi 2017.jpg

You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. Community Tech bot (talk) 19:21, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion

The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page has been nominated for speedy deletion:

• Abdel fattah el sisi 2017.jpg

You can see the reason for deletion at the file description page linked above. Community Tech bot (talk) 22:21, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

He is Going to Be AU Chair

Please include this — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:447:4101:5780:C01B:A310:87B2:ABF4 (talk) 22:52, 8 February 2019 (UTC)

Human rights during El-Sisi's tenure

El-Sisi is an unusually controversial person, with both passionate advocates and antagonists. The Wikipedia article must try to limit the article to widely accepted facts and prevent a discussion within the biography. In El-Sisi's case, the biography should still at least state:

1) Since the military coup in 1952, he is the fifth leader in Egypt with a military background (Morsi is the only exception). 2) He came to power in a coup against Morsi, who was elected in the only fair and free election in Epypt's history. 3) The leading human rights organizations in the world describe a detoriation in human rights in Egypt during El-Sisi's rule. They hold the government - and thus El-Sisi - responsible for this.

A biography over El-Sisi could not refrain from mentioning his responsibility for the Raba Square massacre on 14 August 2013.

My attempts to insert references to Amnesty International has been removed by the moderator. I question why.

At the same time, the reference in the article to Human Right Watch's critical assesment of El-Sisi is followed by something that looks like an excuse for human right transgressions - the fight against extremism. Firstly, this is a discussion. Secondly, it implies that Wikipedia accepts that extremism can not be fougth without torture, disappearences and extrajuridical killings. 11:09, 9 December 2019 (UTC)11:09, 9 December 2019 (UTC)~~

--Brainspin (talk) 11:09, 9 December 2019 (UTC)

hi Brainspin. Please read the introductory material.

• There are no moderators in Wikipedia!
• Use Help:Page history to find out who edited your edit, when, and why. (In this case, Evrik didn't give an WP:EDITSUMMARY, so "why" is missing.)
• You can use Template:u to attract attention from a user while keeping the discussion centralised on the relevant Talk page (such as here).
• If you have a source which attributes responsibility to Sisi for the August 2013 Rabaa massacre, then that can be added.
• Evrik can explain why he reverted your edits, and hopefully you two will come to consensus.
• El-Sisi's "justification" for human rights violations: see WP:NPOV and WP:BLP. NPOV does not imply that Wikipedia agrees (or disagrees) with claims by person X or Y.
• It's easier to focus on one disputed edit at a time.

Hope these suggestions help. Boud (talk) 22:33, 9 December 2019 (UTC) (completion of signature done with too many tildes Boud (talk) 23:13, 13 December 2019 (UTC))

Arabic transcription

@197.60.1.35: I'm not an expert in Arabic transcription, but Hussein, Hussein of Jordan, Husayn ibn Ali, Mohammed Hussein Heikal all agree with you, giving Ḥusayn. I'll approve your edit in a moment. If someone disagrees, then s/he will have to override us and maybe explain why all the other transcriptions are wrong and whether they should all be corrected... Boud (talk) 00:21, 20 December 2019 (UTC)

I have a different comment. This doesn't mean I disagree or agree with the current version of the transliteration. However, anyone who knows Egyptian Arabic will know that they pronounce the name Ḥussain as Ḥissain. It is very likely that they use the Egyptian pronunciation in the Egyptian passports. This, however, is not the standard translation of the name حسين. I think only the Egyptians say Hissain.--SharabSalam (talk) 01:30, 20 December 2019 (UTC)