Morsi: a death foretold

Whoever won the first election after long-ruling dictator Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in 2011 was winning a poisoned chalice, for the Egyptian economy was already on the rocks when the protests began.

Then-U.S. secretary of state John Kerry, pictured in 2013, with Mohammed Morsi, the recently deceased former president of Egypt. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons via U.S. Department of State

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 20, 2019

Egypt’s first and last democratically elected president, Mohamed Morsi, died on Monday, lying on the floor of the courtroom where they were trying him on yet more charges. (He was already serving several life sentences.) It was probably a heart attack, but, accordin...

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