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Who is Abdel Fattah El-Sisi?
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi will visit India from January 24-January 26, 2023 on the invitation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. El-Sisi will also be the chief guest at the 74th Republic Day celebrations, which will be held on January 26 at Kartavya Path in New Delhi. His visit also comes at a time when India and Egypt have completed 75 years of diplomatic relations.
President Sisi is the first Egyptian leader and the fifth from the Middle East and North Africa Region to attend the Republic Day celebrations in India.
Early life and military education
Early life and military education
El-Sisi was born on 19 November 1954 in Old Cairo, to Said Hussein Khalili al-Sisi and Soad Mohamed, both from Monufia Governorate. He grew up in Gamaleya, near al-Azhar Mosque, in a quarter where Muslims, Jews and Christians resided. He is the second eldest of eight siblings. Sisi and his siblings studied at the nearby library at al-Azhar University. He went to a local army-run secondary school, where he developed a relationship with his maternal cousin, Entissar Amer.
As a young man. El-Sisi joined the Egyptian Army and held a post in Saudi Arabia before enrolling in the Egyptian Army's Command and Staff College. He also received additional training at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in the United Kingdom in 1992, and at the United States Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, in 2006. Before becoming director of military intelligence in 2010, he served as a mechanized infantry commander. After graduating from the Egyptian Military Academy, he held various command positions and also served as military attache in Riyadh.
During the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Sisi was the youngest member of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), serving as the director of military intelligence and reconnaissance department. He was later chosen to replace Mohamed Hussein Tantawi and serve as the commander-in-chief and Minister of Defense and Military Production on 12 August 2012.