Julie Jacobson/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.“God created me a doctor... a doctor able to diagnose the case... He created me like this. I know the truth and I see it. Hear it from me. Even the world now, they are all saying "Listen to him...".”
This was Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, speaking about his unprecedented wisdom and special abilities. He continues to describe himself as the “physician of philosophers” and “idol of the world’s politicians, intelligentsia, media experts, and the world's greatest philosophers, if you like”. He can also predict Egypt’s future, according to the dreams he has at night.
If Sisi sees himself at the center of world leaders’ and philosophers’ attention, one can only imagine how much his own people are in trouble. Egypt’s President has never, in a single speech, failed to shower his audience with his exaggerated self-appraisal or paternal authoritarianism. These speeches usually come after a crisis that necessitates emergency political and/or economic measures and actions.
