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  • Apocalypse Cairo
  • The generals who deposed the Muslim Brotherhood are keener on power than they let on. Will Egypt return to military rule?
  • ONCE reluctant to appear in the media, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Egypt's top general (pictured), is now very much seeking the limelight, perhaps because he would like to run for president. A recent video of him addressing army officers appeared to be shot for public consumption and duly went viral. His spokesman has said that although the general was not yet standing for office there was nothing to prevent him from so doing if he retired from the army.
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  • Egypt's press has started comparing Mr Sisi to Gamal Abdul Nasser, the hero-general who eventually became president after deposing the country's last monarch in 1952.
  • Egypt's press has started comparing Mr Sisi to Gamal Abdul Nasser, the hero-general who eventually became president after deposing the country's last monarch in 1952
  • Protesters who helped the army to
  • end the rule of the Muslim Brotherhood last month have plastered the streets with posters of the army chief.
  • "It is very clear he is entertaining the idea of the presidency," says
  • Many see him as a font of the dignity and security which they feel Egypt has lacked since Nasser's time.
  • "It is very clear he is entertaining the idea of the presidency," says Robert Springborg, an expert in the Egyptian armed forces at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
  • In his politics, the general appears to mix nationalism and Islam.
  • He frequently inserts Koranic verses into conversation and is a more pious man than his predecessor, Hussein Tantawi, who was army chief from 1991 to 2012.
  • During part of this time Mr Sisi was a military attache in Saudi Arabia.
  • He also studied at the US Army War College in Pennsylvania for a year.
  • Sherifa Zuhur, who taught him, says that one of his daughters wore the niqab, the full face veil, and another wore the hijab, covering her hair, but not her face.
  • Mr Sisi's image is tainted by the uproar he caused in 2012 when he was the military spy chief and publicly defended members of the army who had subjected female protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to virginity
  • tests "to protect the girls from rape as well as to protect the soldiers and officers from rape accusations".
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