Sadat (city) Sadat (city) Sadat ( "" ) is a city in the Monufia Governorate, Egypt. It is named after late president Anwar Sadat. The city is located northwest of Cairo. It is a first generation new urban community and one of the largest industrial cities in the country. The city is surrounded by a 350 km green belt, which has earned it a place in the top ten list of environmentally friendly industrial cities in the Middle East. Sadat City has industry in a variety of sectors and in 2017, more land was slated and offered for industrial investment in Sadat.
Assassination of Anwar Sadat strategist of El-Jihad was Abbud al-Zumar, a colonel in the military intelligence whose "plan was to kill the main leaders of the country, capture the headquarters of the army and State Security, the telephone exchange building, and of course the radio and television building, where news of the Islamic revolution would then be broadcast, unleashing—he expected—a popular uprising against secular authority all over the country." In February 1981, Egyptian authorities were alerted to El-Jihad's plan by the arrest of an operative carrying crucial information. In September, Sadat ordered a highly unpopular roundup of more than 1500 people, including many Jihad