There are rarely heartfelt funerals for Arab presidents. Those who pass away while in office are laid to rest in stage-managed events, more spectacle than remembrance. Others live long enough to fall out of power, and out of favour with their successors. Muhammad Morsi, Egypt's sole democratic leader, ousted by the current president, was unceremoniously dumped into a grave in the early morning after his sudden death in June.
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