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"It’s always Sunni in Alexandria" Not under the Fatamid Calephs (a series of Shia Calephs) from 969-1171. The Fatamids: "The Fatimid Caliphate's religious ideology originated in an Ismaili Shia movement launched in Syria by the ninth Imam Abd Allah al-Akbar.[6] He claimed descent through Ismail, the seventh Shia imam, from the Prophet's daughter Fatimah and her husband ʻAlī ibn-Abī-Tālib, the first Shīʻa Imām, hence the name al-Fātimiyyūn "Fatimid". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate#Rise_of_the_Fatimids after which Egypt was returned to Sunni control when Saladin conquered Egypt but that history, known very well to both Morsi & Assad, is not lost on either of them; as Muslims, the past is always part of or a cause for, today and tomorrow.