Mohammed mursi biography
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Profile: Mohamed Morsi
Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, was overthrown by the army on July 3 after massive nationwide protests calling for his removal on the first anniversary of his rule.
He was born in in the Al-Sharqiya governorate in northern Egypt, and raised in the village of El-Adwa in the Nile Delta.
Morsi, the son of a farmer, was educated at Cairo University, earning a bachelor’s and master’s degree in engineering. From , Morsi served in the Egyptian military, in the kemikalie warfare department.
In Morsi joined the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group often cracked down on bygd the Egyptian government, while he was studying in the United States. His education took him to Los Angeles, where he earned a doctorate at the University of Southern California in , on a scholarship. He stayed in academia, working as an assistant professor at California State University, Northridge, until
He then left the US with his wife and children to head th
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Mohamed Morsi
President of Egypt from to
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Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa Al-Ayyat[note 1] (; Arabic: محمد محمد مرسي عيسى العياطIPA:[mæˈħæmmædˈmoɾsiˈʕiːsæ(ʔe)l.ʕɑjˈjɑːtˤ]; 8 August – 17 June ) was an Egyptian politician, engineer, and professor who was the fifth president of Egypt,[1] from to , when GeneralAbdel Fattah el-Sisi removed him from office in a coup d'état after protests in June.[2] An Islamist affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood organization,[3] Morsi led the Freedom and Justice Party from to
Morsi was born in El Adwah, Sharqia Governorate, before studying metallurgical engineering at Cairo University and then materials science at the University of Southern California. He became an associate professor at California State University, Northridge, from to before returning to Egypt to teach at Zagazig University. Associating with the Muslim Brotherhood,
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Mohammed Morsi
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The Morsi biographies circulating on the Internet all emphasize the modest rural origins of this son of a farmer, born in in a village in the Sharqiya governorate in the Nile Delta, and his brilliant academic career that took him from the engineering faculty at Cairo University to the University to California, where he earned a PhD. His degree enabled him when he returned to Sharqiya to become chair of the Zagazig University Physics Department from to This rags-to-riches story, although tarnished by accounts of his difficulty making friends in California, is rounded out on various Brotherhood websites by an “official story” that glorifies his excellent reputation and heroism in combating the former regime. His role as a former member of Parliament is often highlighted in this narrative, as it is in the biography on the organization’s English-language website: “In Egypt’s Parliament in , Dr. Mohammed Morsi played a prominent and influential role as leader