The Bibliotheca Alexandrina announced today (Sunday) the recovery of the passport of the late President Mohamed Anwar Sadat, whose photos were circulated for sale recently on the Internet, and it was placed in the Sadat Museum in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina.
The sale of the passport of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at a public auction in the US state of Texas at $47,500 last February sparked anger and controversy within the late president’s family, which it considers “part of the nation’s heritage.” Karim Sadat, the grandson of the late president, a member of Parliament, confirmed Representatives in previous statements to him that selling his grandfather's passport "is an insult that we, as a family, and as representatives of the Egyptian people who love the late president, will not accept," explaining that the late Mrs. Jihan Sadat handed over all her husband's belongings to the Library of Alexandria after his death.
The recent period witnessed Egyptian moves to reveal the validity of the passport of the late President Mohamed Anwar Sadat.
The Sadat Museum in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina is the first of its kind, and it comes within the framework of the library’s documentation of Egypt’s modern and contemporary history, as an entire wing has been allocated to it next to the planetarium, located on an area of 260 meters. Where the museum includes the decision to war, the restoration of the land of Sinai, and the enemy’s infliction of the largest possible losses. The museum also includes a collection of papers and notes written by the late president, from the war plan and plans to deceive the enemy’s Egyptian aviation and artillery, and a group of photographs documenting the October War and the destruction of the “Bar Lev” line. Field from the front during the crossing and victory and raising the flag of Egypt on the beloved land of Sinai, in addition to the suit that the late president was wearing during his assassination, and it still bears traces of the blood of his martyrdom.
The museum also includes the personal belongings and military uniforms worn by President Sadat, and a collection of rare pictures of President Sadat during the stages of preparation for the peace agreement. about him.
Mohamed Hefny (Cairo)