Little surprise surrounded the recent elections in Egypt, where the incumbent President and former Defence Minister Abd al-Fatah al-Sisi swept to power with a reported 89.6% of the vote. While al-Sisi ran on a host of promises, including plans to lift Egypt out of its ongoing economic crisis, the geopolitics of the wars in Ukraine and Palestine coloured the election in ways that were also unsurprising. “Down with Israel. No displacement or rehoming,” was the chant attributed to “angry protests in all Egyptian governorates,” according to Egypt Today, one of the country’s semi-official English-l…