Over a decade at the helm of the Arab world’s most populous country, there have been times when President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi of Egypt looked like a man dangling from a ledge by the tips of his fingers.
There was the time 10 years ago, when the former general seized power by deploying the army to depose Egypt’s first freely elected president, a takeover capped by the killing of at least 800 anti-coup protesters in one day. The Rabaa massacre, as it became known, brought a storm of international condemnation down on el-Sissi’s head.
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