Egypt's Islamist president-elect to be sworn in

Egypt's President-elect Mohammed Morsi talks to his supporters at Tahrir Square, the focal point of Egyptian uprising, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 29, 2012. In front of tens of thousands of cheering supporters, Egypt's first Islamist and civilian president-elect vowed that nobody can take away his authority and symbolically read an oath of office on the eve of his official inauguration. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)?(Amr Nabil)

CAIRO ? Islamist Mohammed Morsi is to be sworn in by Egypt's highest court as the country's first freely elected president, succeeding Hosni Mubarak who was ousted last year.

When he takes the oath of office Saturday before the Supreme Constitutional Court, Morsi will also be the Arab world's first freely elected Islamist leader and Egypt's fifth president since the overthrow of the monarchy some 60 years ago.

The court, housed in a Nile-side structure built to resemble an ancient Egyptian temple, stands next door to a military hospital to which Mubarak, 84, was transferred about two weeks ago after suffering a health scare in a nearby prison hospital.

Morsi took a symbolic oath on Friday in Cairo's Tahrir Square, birthplace of last year's uprising, before tens of thousands of Islamist supporters.

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