Photo of Ahmad el-Mansour proclaiming the "Revolutionary Movement of Jan. 25th" circulated on X.
He is a man about whom little is known, but he is causing a stir in Egypt these days. Ahmad al-Mansour, a well-known opponent of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, graduated from Al-Azhar University and participated in the 2013 sit-ins against the coup led by Sisi, notably at Rabaa al-Adawiya, which was bloodily suppressed. Shortly afterward, he left Egypt to join Syrian rebels fighting against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Within the ranks of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), he worked toward toppling Assad. However, he split from the group on Dec. 8, returning to his original focus: opposing Sisi.Images of Ahmad al-Mansour, flanked by four masked men in front of the pre-1952 Egyptian flag, proclaiming the “25 January Revolutionary Movement” (referencing the start of Egypt’s 2011 revolution) and calling for Sisi’s overthrow, have...
He is a man about whom little is known, but he is causing a stir in Egypt these days. Ahmad al-Mansour, a well-known opponent of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, graduated from Al-Azhar University and participated in the 2013 sit-ins against the coup led by Sisi, notably at Rabaa al-Adawiya, which was bloodily suppressed. Shortly afterward, he left Egypt to join Syrian rebels fighting against President Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Within the ranks of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), he worked toward toppling Assad. However, he split from the group on Dec. 8, returning to his original focus: opposing Sisi.Images of Ahmad al-Mansour, flanked by four masked men in front of the pre-1952 Egyptian flag, proclaiming the “25 January Revolutionary Movement” (referencing the start of Egypt’s 2011 revolution) and calling for Sisi’s overthrow,...