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Mohamed Morsi was an Egyptian politician who had a net worth of $500 thousand at the time of his death in 2019. Born in El-Adwah, Sharqia Governorate, Egypt, Mohamed Morsi obtained his education primarily in his native country before winning a scholarship from his home government to study abroad in the United States. Morsi earned his doctorate from the University of Southern California. He worked as an assistant professor in the United States before returning to Egypt in the mid-1980s to teach in his home country. Mohamed’s parliamentary career began in 2000; He served in Parliament for five years as an independent candidate, although he was part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Office. In 2011, Morsi joined the Freedom and Justice Party as the party’s inaugural president. That year he was taken prisoner along with several other members of the Muslim Brotherhood; Morsi escaped from his captors two days later.

In 2012, Mohamed became the Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate, winning the June 24 election with just over 51% of the vote and becoming the first person democratically elected as Egypt’s head of state. He assumed unlimited power as president, and within a year protesters were calling for his resignation. The Egyptian army overthrew Morsi on July 3, 2013 in a coup d’état. As a result, Mohamed was forced from office and the state Constitution was suspended in favor of a new one. Adly Mansour became Egypt’s interim president ahead of new elections. Following Mohamed’s presidency, there were widespread arrests of Muslim Brotherhood supporters. On September 1, 2013, it was announced that Morsi would be tried in his home country on a series of charges. He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was later overturned. During the retrial, Mohamed collapsed just after speaking at a court hearing on June 17, 2019, and died of a heart attack that same day at the age of 67.

Early life

Mohamed Morsi was born Mohamed Mohamed Morsi Issa Al-Ayat on August 20, 1951 in El Adwah, Kingdom of Egypt. His birth took place near the end of the Egyptian monarchy. Morsi was the son of a housewife and a farmer, and had four younger brothers. He moved to Cairo in the late 1960s to attend Cairo University, graduating in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in engineering with high honors. Mohamed then completed his military service, serving in the Egyptian army in the chemical warfare unit until 1976. In 1978, he earned a master’s degree in metallurgical engineering from Cairo University, then received a government scholarship that gave him the opportunity to study in the U.S. There, Morsi enrolled at the University of Southern California, where he earned a doctorate in materials science in 1982; his thesis was on aluminum oxide. From 1982 to 1985 he was an assistant professor at California State University, Northridge. After leaving his teaching job at CSUN, Mohamed returned to Egypt and taught at Zagazig University. He became head of the university’s engineering department and worked there until 2010.

Career

In 2000, Morsi was elected deputy. He served until 2005 as an independent candidate because President Hosni Mubarak had banned the Muslim Brotherhood from running candidates. Mohamed was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Office until the Freedom and Justice Party was founded in 2011. The Guidance Office then elected him as the new party’s first president. In early 2011, Morsi and 24 of his fellow Muslim Brotherhood leaders were arrested. Two days after his arrest, he escaped from a Cairo prison. Four years later, Mohamed stood trial for the prison escape and was sentenced to death in May 2015. The sentence was later overturned and a new trial ordered.

Before going to trial, Morsi ran in the 2012 presidential election as a Muslim Brotherhood candidate and won with 51.73% of the vote. On June 30, 2012, he was sworn in as the country’s first democratically elected president. A few months later, Morsi announced the annulment of constitutional amendments that restricted the president’s powers. In November 2012, he issued a statement aimed at protecting the Constituent Assembly from judicial interference while it drafted the new constitution. Egyptian diplomat and lawyer Mohamed ElBaradei declared that the president had “usurped all the powers of the State and had proclaimed himself the new pharaoh of Egypt.” Mass protests broke out against Morsi and his statement was condemned by several human rights organizations. In December 2012, it annulled the title that expanded its powers. In June 2013, nationwide protests called for Mohamed’s resignation and the Egyptian Armed Forces gave him a 48-hour ultimatum to meet the demands of Egypt’s citizens. Morsi rejected the ultimatum and was placed under house arrest in early July.

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Imprisonment and death

After being overthrown, Morsi was tried on several charges. In April 2015, he was convicted of inciting violence and arresting and torturing protesters, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In mid-2016, Mohamed received a life sentence on charges of passing state secrets to Qatar, but the sentence was annulled a few months later. He was held in the “Scorpion Prison” wing of Tora prison, where a detention review panel reported that he was receiving “cruel, inhuman and degrading” treatment and inadequate care for his diabetes. On June 17, 2019, Egyptian state television announced that Morsi collapsed during a court hearing and reportedly died of a heart attack later that day at the age of 67. He was buried in Cairo alongside other important figures of the Muslim Brotherhood. Sarah Leah Whitson, executive director of the Middle East and North Africa division of Human Rights Watch, said of Mohamed’s death: “Former President Morsi’s death followed years of government mistreatment, prolonged solitary confinement, inadequate medical care, and deprivation of family visits and access to lawyers.” Mohamed Sudan, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, called Morsi’s death “premeditated murder.”

personal life

In 1979, Mohamed married Naglaa Ali Mahmoud, his cousin. The couple welcomed five children together: Ahmed, Shaima, Osama, Omar and Abdullah. Ahmed is a doctor and Osama is a lawyer. Three of Morsi’s children were born in California. Abdullah died in September 2019, the day after his 25th birthday, and was reported to have suffered a heart attack while driving. However, in September 2020, his lawyers revealed that he had actually died “as a result of being injected with a lethal substance.”

Awards

In 2013, the National University of Science and Technology awarded Morsi an honorary Doctorate of Philosophy during a state visit to Pakistan. He was awarded the title “in recognition of his achievements and significant contribution to promoting peace and harmony in the world and strengthening relations with Muslim countries.”