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The politics of Egypt takes place within the framework of a republican semi-presidential system of government. The current political system was established following the 2013 Egyptian military coup d'état, and the takeover of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. In the current system, the President is elected for a six-year term.
The modern Egyptian army was established as a result of the 1936 Anglo-Egyptian treaty, which allowed the Egyptian army to expand from 398 officers to 982. [75] Nasser applied at the Obassia Military College, Egypt's leading cadet school, in 1937.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak with US President Barack Obama in Cairo, Egypt, 4 June 2009. US Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Mohamed Morsi, the first Egyptian president to have gained power through a free election, on May 25, 2013. US Secretary of State John Kerry with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on April 20, 2016
According to most scholars the history of modern Egypt dates from the start of the rule of Muhammad Ali in 1805 and his launching of Egypt's modernization project that involved building a new army and suggesting a new map for the country, though the definition of Egypt's modern history has varied in accordance with different definitions of modernity.
Muhammad Ali had a 43-year reign, the longest in the history of modern Egypt. [6] Termed the "father of modern Egypt," he is viewed in Egyptian historiography as the dynasty's most important ruler, due to his massive agricultural, administrative, and military reforms. [3] His son, Ibrahim Pasha, was the shortest-reigning monarch of the dynasty. [6]
A new coalition of Egyptian political parties publicly criticized the country's current government Monday for persecuting politicians, in a rare act of political dissent. In a news conference ...
A New York man who was indicted in 2022 on felony charges of acting as an unregistered agent of Egypt's government pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a lesser charge, in the latest stumble for U.S ...
On 22–26 July 1952, the Free Officers, a group of disaffected officers in the Egyptian army founded by Gamal Abdel Nasser, and headed by General Muhammad Naguib, initiated the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 with the overthrowing King Farouk, whom the military blamed for Egypt's poor performance in the 1948 War with Israel and lack of progress in fighting poverty, disease, and illiteracy in ...