Mohamed Hussein Tantawi Soliman was an Egyptian field marshal and politician. He was the commander-in-chief of the Egyptian Armed Forces and,as chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces,was the de facto head of state from the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak on 11 February 2011 until the inauguration of Mohamed Morsi as president of Egypt on 30 June 2012. Tantawi served in the government as Minister of Defense and Military Production from 1991 until Morsi ordered him to retire on 12 August 2012.
Abdul Munim Riad was a general and chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces. Riad commanded the Jordanian forces in the 1967 Six-Day War and later commanded Egyptian forces in the War of Attrition,during which he was killed along with several of his aides in 1969.
The Egyptian Military Academy is the oldest and most prominent military academy in Egypt. Traditionally,graduates of the Military Academy are commissioned as officers in the Egyptian Army. However,they may serve in other branches and commands of the Egyptian military establishment.
Saad el-Din Mohamed el-Husseiny el-Shazly was an Egyptian military commander. He was Egypt's chief of staff during the October War. Following his public criticism of the Camp David Accords,he resigned from his post as Ambassador to Britain and Portugal and went to Algeria as a political refugee.
Ahmed Mohamed Shafik Zaki is an Egyptian politician and former presidential candidate. He was a senior commander in the Egyptian Air Force and later served as Prime Minister of Egypt from 29 January 2011 to 3 March 2011 under Hosni Mubarak.
Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed was the commander of the Egyptian Air Force. Mohamed was also the minister for military production in the interim cabinet led by Prime Minister Hazem Al Beblawi.
Presidential elections were held in Egypt in 2012,with the first round on 23 and 24 May 2012 and the second on 16 and 17 June. The 2012 Egyptian Presidential election was the first democratic presidential election of Egypt’s history. The Muslim Brotherhood declared early 18 June 2012,that its candidate,Mohamed Morsi,won Egypt's presidential election,which would be the first victory of an Islamist as head of state in the Arab world. It was the second presidential election in Egypt's history with more than one candidate,following the 2005 election,and the first presidential election after the 2011 Egyptian revolution which ousted president Hosni Mubarak,during the Arab Spring. However,Morsi's presidency was brief and short-lived,and he later faced massive protests for and against his rule,only to be ousted in a military coup in July that year.
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces is a statutory body of between 20 and 25 senior Egyptian military officers and is headed by Field Marshal Abdul Fatah al-Sisi and Lieutenant General Mohamed Ahmed Zaki. The council is convened only in cases of war or great internal emergencies. As a consequence of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011,SCAF assumed power to govern Egypt from departing President Hosni Mubarak on 11 February 2011,and relinquished power on 30 June 2012 upon the start of Mohamed Morsi's term as president. The Council has met regularly in times of national emergencies. During the course of the 2011 revolution,the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces met first on 9 February 2011 under the chairmanship of Egyptian president,Hosni Mubarak. The Council met for the first time without the chairmanship of the president on the following day,10 February,and issued their first press statement which signaled that the council was about to assume power which they did the following day after Mubarak's resignation. The military junta was headed by Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi who served as the Minister of Defense under Mubarak,and included the service heads and other senior commanders of the Egyptian Armed Forces,namely Lt. Gen. Sami Hafez Anan,Armed Forces Chief of Staff;Air Marshal Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed,Air Force commander;Lt. Gen. Abd El Aziz Seif-Eldeen,Commander of Air Defense;and Vice Admiral Mohab Mamish,Navy Commander in Chief.
Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Eissa al-Ayyat was an Egyptian politician,engineer and professor who served as the fifth president of Egypt,from 30 June 2012 to 3 July 2013,when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed him from office in a coup d'état after protests in June. An Islamist affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood organisation,Morsi led the Freedom and Justice Party from 2011 to 2012.
Following the 2011 Egyptian revolution,the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt became one of the main forces contending for political power in Egypt against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) and other established centers of the former Hosni Mubarak regime.
Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has served as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014. Before retiring as a general in the Egyptian military in 2014,Sisi served as Egypt’s deputy prime minister from 2013 to 2014,as its minister of defense from 2012 to 2013,and as its director of military intelligence from 2010 to 2012. He was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal in January 2014.
Sedki Sobhy Sayyid Ahmad is an Egyptian politician and former General who was Minister of Defence of Egypt from 2014 until 2018. Sobhy previously served as the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces from August 2012 to March 2014. He was sworn in as Minister of Defence in March 2014 after Abdul Fattah al-Sisi resigned so he could stand for the presidency. He also commanded the Third Army for a time.
Osama El-Gendi is an officer in the Egyptian military.
The following is a chronological summary of the major events that occurred after the Egyptian Revolution of 2011,after Mohamed Morsi's election as the fifth President of Egypt,on 30 June 2012. This article documents the third wave of the Egyptian Crisis.
The 2012–2013 Egyptian protests were part of the crisis in Egypt including the June 2013 protests,the July 2013 coup d'état,and part of the post-coup unrest. They saw varying opposition against three contiguous heads of state;namely,SCAF,Muslim Brotherhood,and the de facto ruling Egyptian Armed Forces.
The Second Field Army is a military formation of the Egyptian Army,formed in 1968. Army headquarters is at Ismailia. It is usually commanded by a field commander of Lieutenant-General rank of at least 34 years' service,and reports directly to the Army General Headquarters and General Staff.
Air Marshal Younes Hamed Al-Masri is the Minister of Civil Aviation,and was the Commander of the Egyptian Air Force from 2012 until 2018.
Lieutenant general Mohamed Zaher Abdelrahman or Zaher Abdelrahman born on September 12,1935 is an Egyptian military officer who has held many military and government positions.
The Chief of the General Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces is second in command after the Minister of Defense and the President. He usually holds the second highest military rank. Commanders of the Navy,Air Force and Air Defense Forces are under his command.
Mohamed Hegazy Abdul Mawgoud is a lieutenant general in the Egyptian Armed Forces who is the current commander of the Egyptian Air Defense Forces. Prior to his appointment as commander of Air Defense,he served as chief of the Air Defense until December 2020.
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