Abdel Fattah El-sisi

About

Egyptian military leader and politician who held office as Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces from 2012 until 2014. In 2013, he became Deputy Prime Minister of Egypt. He assumed office as the sixth President of Egypt in 2014. 

Before Fame

After graduating from the Egyptian Military Academy in the late 1970s, he commanded Northern Egypt's Alexandria military division.

Trivia

He began his Egyptian Presidential campaign in 2014. His political fame has led him to amass more than 3 million followers on his alsisiofficial Instagram page. 

Family Life

He was born in Cairo, Egypt. He and his wife raised their daughter and three sons in the Islamic faith.

Associated With

He was a key figure in a 2013 coup d'etat that removed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi from office.