Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. The Capital is Cairo.
The President is Hosni Mubarak. He was ousted after 18 days of demonstration during the 2011 Egyptian revolution. He was sentenced to life in prison on 6/2/2012 for corruption and abuse of power. June 7, 1012 CNN reports his health has taken a turn for the worse. As of October 12, 2015 he is still detained in a military hospital by a Cairo court. He was acquitted on March 2, 2017 by Court of Cassation, Egypt's top appeals court. He was released on March 24, 2017. He died 2.25.2020 at the age of 91.
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The new president is Mohamed Morsi. He assumed office on June 30, 2012 to July 3, 2013, when he was removed by Field Marshal Abdel Fattah el-Sisi after June 2013 Egyptian protests and 2013 Egyptian coup d'état. He was the first democratically elected head of state in Egyptian history.
Adly Mahmoud Mansour served as the acting President of Egypt from 3 July 2013 to 8 June 2014. He was succeeded by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who is the current president of Egypt. He assumed office June 8, 2014.
July 3, 2013: CAIRO — Egypt’s military officers removed the country’s first democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, on Wednesday, suspended the Constitution and installed an interim government presided over by a senior jurist.
July 4, 2013: Adly Mansour is the acting President and a judge who currently heads the Supreme Constitutional Court. Effective June 8, 2014, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi was elected president.
The Country profile , the CIA Factbook, and the history.
Egypt is one of the U.S. most important Arab allies. It is intimately involved with the Palestinian problem, acting as an intermediary between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. - BBC News
President Jimmy Carter shaking hands with Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin at the signing of the Egyptian–Israeli Peace Treaty on the grounds of the White House, 1979.
The Camp David Accords were signed, establishing a framework for peace between Egypt and Israel. Egypt had been in a state of declared war with Israel since 1948, punctuated by several short but violent conflicts, including the Six-Day War in 1967. In 1977, U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance laid the groundwork to get representatives from Egypt and Israel to meet and discuss conditions for ending hostilities and normalizing diplomatic relations. Israel agreed to withdraw its troops from the Sinai Peninsula, and Egypt agreed to officially recognize Israel as a nation. The Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty was signed in a ceremony at the White House on March 26, 1979, and the three leaders—Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin—joined hands and shared big smiles.
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leader, Yasser Arafat, told a rally in West Beirut: "Let them sign what they like. False peace will not last." He accused President Sadat of betraying the Egyptian people, and said they would eventually eliminate him.
Sadat and Begin were jointly awarded the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts even as the Arab League suspended Egypt from membership in the Arab League until 1989. On Oct. 6, 1981, Islamist military officers assassinated Sadat as he watched a victory parade in Cairo held to commemorate the anniversary of Egypt’s crossing of the Suez Canal during the 1973 war with Israel.
Following the assassination of President Anwar el-Sadat in 1981, martial (emergency) law was declared. Egypt has been under martial law ever since. Martial law gives military courts the power to try civilians and allows the government to detain for renewable 45-day periods and without court orders anyone deemed to be threatening state security. Public demonstrations are banned under the legislation. See Hosni Mubarak - the new president's profile and the protests in Egypt.
Pres. Obama will address Muslim relations in Egypt
President Obama will give what could be one of the most important speeches @ the University of Cairo, of his presidency on Thursday 6.4.09 when he addresses the relationship between the United States and Muslims.
The president spoke to the BBC's North America editor Justin Webb, before his speech in Cairo on Thursday 6.4.09.
- Arabs look for action from Pres. Obama
- Experts make predictions
- Muslims question & praise Pres. Obama
- Pres. Obama using Facebook & text messaging
- Jerusalem Post
- 18 days of protest for Mubarak to resign.
