The most important man in the Middle East started 2012 as much a stranger to the people he now rules as he was to the rest of the world. Although Mohamed Morsi had long been part of the core leadership of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, he was viewed as a backroom operator, largely unnoticed among the Islamic party's more charismatic political and religious figures. Not many outside of a handful of State Department Arabists in Washington had even heard his name.
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