In a widely praised January 1 speech, Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi visited Al-Azhar University to address the country’s religious leadership, saying the time had come to reform Islam.

On Friday evening, hundreds of anti-regime protesters gathered in Cairo, near Tahrir Square – the epicenter of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution – demanding Sisi’s resignation.

El-Sisi’s “security agencies have time and again used brutal force to crush peaceful protests,” said Michael Page, deputy Middle East and North Africa director at HRW.

President Donald Trump on Monday said the U.S. is “very much behind” Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the controversial military ruler accused of human rights abuses and often described as a ...

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Sisi devoted much of his 120-minute speech, by far his longest since coming to office in June 2014, to the threats Egypt faces and his efforts to spare it from the violence convulsing much of the ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Sisi was reelected in March by 97% of the vote to his second and final term in office — or so it seemed final at the time.

Sisi is set to announce his candidacy in the next 72 hours, likely on Wednesday, the Saudi newspaper Okaz reported. Separately, Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef, ...

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