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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 investment, w

Born into a family of 13 children on December 25, 1918, Anwar al-Sadat grew up among average Egyptian villagers in the town of Mit Abul Kom 40 miles to the north of Cairo. Having completed a grade school education, Sadat's father worked as a clerk in the local military hospital. By the time of his birth, Anwar's Egypt had become a British colony. Crippling debt had forced the Egyptian government to sell the British government its interests in the French-engineered Suez Canal linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Indian Ocean. The British and French used these resources to establish enough political control over Egyptian affairs to refer to Egypt as a British colony.

Four figures affected Sadat's early life. The first, a man named Zahran, came from a small village like Sadat's. In a famous incident of colonial rule, the British hanged Zahran for participating in a riot that resulted in the death of a British officer. Sadat admired the courage Zahran exhibited on the way to the gallows. The second, Kemel Ataturk, created the modern state of Turkey by forcing the downfall of the Ottoman Empire. Not only had Ataturk thrown off the shackles of colonialism, but he established a number of civil service reforms, which Sadat admired. The third man was Mohandas Gandhi. Touring Egypt in 1932, Gandhi had preached the power of nonviolence in combating injustice. And finally, the young Sadat admired Adolf Hitler whom the anticolonialist Sadat viewed as a potential rival to British control.

In 1936, as part of a deal between the British and the Wafd party, the British agreed to create a military school in Egypt. Sadat was among its first students. Besides the traditional training in math and science, each student learned to analyze battles. Sadat even studied the Battle of Gettysburg, the turning point in America's civil war. Upon graduating from the academy, the government posted Sadat to a distant outpost. There he met Gamal Abdel Nass

President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981

Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk I in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as vice president twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize.

In his 11 years as president, he changed Egypt's trajectory, departing from many political and economic tenets of Nasserism, reinstituting a multi-party system, and launching the Infitah economic policy. As President, he led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to regain Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967, making him a hero in Egypt and, for a time, the wider Arab World. Afterwards, he engaged in negotiations with Israel, culminating in the Camp David Accords and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty; this won him and Menachem Begin the Nobel Peace Prize, making Sadat the first Muslim Nobel laureate.

Although reaction to the treaty – which resulted in the return of Sinai to Egypt – was generally favorable among Egyptians, it was rejected by the country's Muslim Brotherhood and the left, which felt Sadat had abandoned efforts to ensure a State of Palestine. With the exception of Sudan, the Arab world and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) strongly opposed Sadat's efforts to make a separate peace with Israel without prior consultations with the Arab states. His refusal to reconcile with