Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appears in Spring, then fall: a weakened Muslim Brotherhood as the Egyptian leader whose coup against Mohamed Morsi became the source’s strongest example of authoritarian backlash against the Muslim Brotherhood. Gareth Brown describes the coup as an “autocratic sledgehammer” against the movement.

The page is source-scoped. In this episode, Sisi matters less as a full Egyptian political profile than as the state actor who demonstrates how fast a democratic opening can close when governments, militaries, and non-Brotherhood actors see Islamist electoral power as intolerable or untrustworthy.

Connections

• Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, and Muslim Brotherhood - country, president, and movement in the source’s core case.
• Post-Arab Spring Islamist Decline - broader regional pattern the coup exemplifies.
• Islamist Democratic Trust Problem - legitimacy suspicion that helps explain the backlash described by the episode.