Sisi: I came to see you my old friend. Morsi: Yeah, right! Still wearing that idiotic smug on your face. Sisi: Tahya Masr (Long live Egypt)… Actually, there’s a reason for my visit.

The man Morsi himself picked to head the military, al-Sisi, gave Morsi 48 hours to satisfy the crowd's demands. When he failed to do so, al-Sisi had Morsi put under house arrest.

It is Sisi’s first foreign trip since he overthrew President Mohamed Morsi last summer, and it ticks all the boxes: The army chief doffing his uniform, acting like a statesman, shoring up ...

Editor’s note: On 3 July 2013, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was ousted in a coup led by then-General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. A senior official working for Morsi has spoken for the first time ...

Last March, even as Morsi’s popular support declined sharply, only three percent of Egyptians wanted “the defense minister or another military man” as their president, according to a Baseera poll.

Morsi’s death comes as el-Sisi continues to jail tens of thousands of people in what the Associated Press has described as the heaviest crackdown on dissent in Egypt’s modern history.

When SCAF took over after Mubarak stepped down in February 2011, it was again Morsi who was appointed within the Muslim Brotherhood to liaise with SCAF … and more specifically with el-Sisi, who ...

Morsi had been Egypt's elected president following the abdication of Hosni Mubarak in 2011, but was deposed after a military coup in 2013 that installed General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi into power.

In comparison, Morsi promptly responded to the Israeli aggression in 2012. He immediately summoned Egypt’s ambassador from Israel, called for an emergency session of the United Nations Security ...

The army pushed Egypt’s first democratically elected president from power after days of massive street protests, acting swiftly to remove the Islamist leader in favor of a coalition government ...