Mohammed Anwar Sadat

  • He was born on December 25, 1918 in Menoufia Governorate.
  • He graduated from the Military College in 1938 as an officer with the rank of second lieutenant, and was appointed to the city of Manqabad in southern Egypt.
  • On January 6, 1946, he was thrown into Cairo prison as a result of his accusation of participating in the murder of Amin Othman, the Minister of Finance.
  • In 1948, he was acquitted, and in 1950 he returned to his work in the army, then joined the Free Officers Organization in 1951.
  • He delivered the statement of the July 23 Revolution in 1952, and was assigned to many positions such as Speaker of the National Assembly (Parliament), Editor-in-Chief of the Republic, and Secretary-General of the World Islamic Conference.
  • He was elected President of the Federal National Assembly in 1960, and was appointed President of the Afro-Asian Solidarity Council in 1961.
  • He was elected President of the Republic after announcing the results of the popular referendum on October 17, 1970.
  • He made the historic crossing decision in the October War in 1973.
  • On June 5, 1975, he reopened the Suez Canal to global navigation, and established the Port Said Free Zone as the beginning of Egypt’s entry into the era of economic openness, in addition to establishing many new cities outside Cairo.
  • In 1977, he made his wise and courageous decision, which shook the world, to visit Jerusalem, thus granting peace as a gift from him to his people and his enemy at the same time, and advancing the wheel of peace between Egypt and Israel with his own hand.
  • In 1978, he founded the National Democratic Party and assumed its presidency.
  • Anwar el-Sadat made history by leading Egypt to a groundbreaking peace agreement with Israel, known as the Camp David Accords in 1978. This agreement, brokered by then-U.S. President Jimmy Carter, marked the first-ever peace treaty between Israel and an Arab nation.
  • He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978.
  • Tragically, Anwar el-Sadat’s presidency came to an abrupt end on October 6, 1981, when he was assassinated during a military parade in Cairo.