After nearly three years of post-revolutionary chaos, they also see Sisi as the restorer of stability – despite a rise in state-sponsored killing since Morsi's ousting.
Stalin is celebrated not as a Communist but as a restorer of Russian greatness after Lenin's anti-patriotic "deviation".
Amid a swirl of rumour, some detect a plan to foment chaos and so pave the way for Mr Ben Ali's return as the restorer of order, perhaps backed by his friend Colonel Qaddafi.
According to Sabrina Meloni, a restorer at the gallery, the portraits were in no shape for a grand exhibition.
If the instrument is worth a lot, the quality of the repair can make a big difference to its value, so a skilled restorer can set his price.Expertise in making and repairing is essential to a business such as J&A Beare, a venerable London firm of string-instrument dealers, valuers and restorers that has been going for over 100 years.
Another character overhears a conversation on a bus about the weird successes of a psychic "restorer of lost loves" who operates a dingy clinic in south Tel Aviv.
The incumbent president, Benigno Aquino, was a similarly inconspicuous member of congress until the death of his mother, the ex-president Corazon Aquino, restorer of democracy.
If he can come up with a plan to fix all that, he will be seen not as a usurper so much as a restorer.
IN AUGUST 1990, an Italian art restorer at the National Gallery of Ireland was called to St Ignatius Residence, the home of the Jesuit priests in Dublin.
They include Juan Garcia, a sign painter and portraitist, and Angel Toxqui, a skilled sculptor and restorer of colonial art.
The result is a protective layer on the object.The result, says Thomas Vieweger, an art restorer who acts as the team's expert eye, is stable and looks good, with the right texture and colour.
