The Tragedy of Egypt's Mohamed Morsi
Mohamed Morsi was a deeply flawed but democratically elected president. His death shows how much his country has lost.
by Shadi Hamid
Jun 18, 2019
3 minutes
Mohamed Morsi’s life, especially his later life, was the product of a series of accidents. When I first met him, he was a senior but relatively obscure and not particularly important official in the Muslim Brotherhood—and one could easily imagine him staying that way. He was a loyalist, a functionary, and an enforcer. Then he became something else: Egypt’s first democratically elected president—and also the last, at least for the foreseeable future. Visionary leaders sometimes emerge during moments of crisis and transition. But just as often, ordinary men
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