Remembering a legend: Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat

CAIRO – 26 December 2021: The late President Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat was not an ordinary politician, as he was distinguished by several talents that made his great charisma, creating his immortal legend as a hero of war and peace, with his boundless intelligence and great acumen for things, it seems that the talents possessed by him of a battle-crossing man, aided in his unique personal formation.

December 25 marks the 103rd birth anniversary of late President Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat, as he was born on December 25, 1918.

He is the third president of the Arab Republic of Egypt who ruled Egypt from September 28, 1970 as an acting president and as the formal president from October 17, 1970 to October 6, 1981.

Sadat was famous for his boldness, cunning and political shrewdness. It is what appeared clearly in his elimination of his political opponents in what was known as the Correction Revolution.

Sadat worked to prepare for the recovery of the Sinai Peninsula from the grip of Israel following the setback in the 1967 war, where he managed to defeat it three years after the beginning of his rule in the October 1973 war.

It seems that part of President Sadat's great charisma, and his talent for giving speech, stemmed from his love for cinema, according to the book "Sadat's Biography and Journey" by writer Mohamed Morshedy Barakat.