Mohamed Morsi is Elected President of Egypt

Morsi, replacing deposed Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, is head of the Freedom and Justice party. At the party’s center is the philosophy of the Muslim Brotherhood which seeks a greater place for Islam in Egypt’s public space. Holding a plurality of seats in the Egyptian Parliament, the FJP forms a narrow ruling coalition government. As president, he implements a constitution and appoints individuals to key governmental positions, all with distinctly Islamic leanings, thereby alienating those who thought he might as promised, govern from a pluralistic center. Morsi, born in 1951 in Northern Egypt to a modest, working class family, holds a PhD from USC in Material Sciences. He remains President until deposed by the army in July 2013.