President Barack Obama will meet Egypt’s first Islamist leader, the recently elected Mohamed Morsi, at the U.N. General Assembly in New York in September, Agence France Presse reported Sunday, July 8. Morsi of the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood was last month proclaimed to be Egypt’s first democratically elected president, a year and a half after street protests toppled veteran strongman and U.S. ally Hosni Mubarak. The United States has reached out carefully to Morsi as U.S. officials predict a more complicated and less predictable relationship with the key Arab nation. Obama spoke by telephone with Morsi after his election was confirmed and pledged to work together “on the basis of mutual respect.” He also called losing candidate Ahmed Shafiq, who was close to Mubarak, and asked him to support the democratic process.