📍Mit Abu al-Kum, Monufia, Egypt
1918 – 1981“I was born Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat on the 25th of December 1918 in Mit Abu al-Kum, a village in the Nile Delta. I was imprisoned twice by the British during the Second World War for anti-colonial activities. I participated in the 1952 revolution and eventually succeeded Nasser as President in 1970. In October 1973 I launched the Yom Kippur War, crossing the Suez Canal and restoring Egyptian military honour after the 1967 humiliation. Then, in November 1977, I flew to Jerusalem — the first Arab leader to visit Israel — and addressed the Knesset. The Camp David Accords followed, and the Nobel Peace Prize, and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. And then, on the 6th of October 1981, I was assassinated by soldiers in my own army during a military parade. The village childhood, the prison, Jerusalem, the parade ground.”
🗺️ Approximate location today
📷 Location image · via Wikimedia Commons
Sources: Sadat, A. In Search of Identity: An Autobiography (1978), Harper & Row; Hirst, D. & Beeson, I. Sadat (1981), Faber & Faber