Anwar Al Sadat

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Bravery, honesty, loyalty, and others, all these were characteristics of former Egyptian president, Mohamed Anwar El Sadat. He was born on 25 December 1918 into a family of 13 children. His father was a government clerk and his mother Sudanese. He was named after Ismail Anwar, also known as Anwar Pasha, the Turkish war minister who was a Middle East war hero who held the city of Edirne during the Balkan wars in 1918, the year of Sadat’s birth. Sadat had a happy childhood. He grew up among average Egyptian villagers in the town of Mit Abul Kom, Menufeya, which is 40 miles to the north of Cairo. Egypt was by that time a British colony. From an early time in his life, Anwar al-Sadat developed anti-colonial beliefs. Sadat was a devout Muslim from his early days, benefiting from an Islamic education. Later he joined the military school in Egypt. After his graduation, he was posted to a remote government base, where he met Gamal Abdel-Nasser. This was supposed to be the turning point of his life. During the Second World War, Anwar El Sadat was imprisoned by the British because of the provocative help he offered to the Germans to expel the British from Egypt. However, he escaped two years later. In 1946 Sadat was rearrested, because of his entanglement in the assassination of a pro-British minister. He was released two years later. In prison, Sadat wrote a book called, In Search of Identity. Later after his release, he joined the "free officers' organization" which led a coup against the royal government of King Farouk in 1952, and he supported Nasser's election as Egyptian president in 1956. Upon Nasser's death in 1970, Anwar al-Sadat was elected president of Egypt. One of his most important domestic accomplishments was the so-called "open-door policy": an approach that included decentralization of the economy, as well as opening Egypt to foreign trade and

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