Anwar Sadat Emmy nomination in the United States. He was portrayed by Robert Loggia in the 1982 television movie "A Woman Called Golda", opposite Ingrid Bergman as Golda Meir. The first Egyptian depiction of Sadat's life came in 2001, when "Ayyam El Sadat" (English: "Days of Sadat") was released in Egyptian cinemas. This movie, by contrast, was a major success in Egypt, and was hailed as Ahmed Zaki's greatest performance to date. The young Sadat is a major character in Ken Follett's thriller "The Key to Rebecca", taking place in World War II Cairo. Sadat, at the time a young officer in
Ayman al-Zawahiri under his "Abdul Mu'iz" pseudonym, relying on his credentials from the Kuwaiti Red Crescent to raise money for Afghan children who had been injured by Soviet land mines—he only raised $2000. In 1981, Al-Zawahiri was one of hundreds arrested following the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. Initially, the plan was derailed when authorities were alerted to Al-Jihad's plan by the arrest of an operative carrying crucial information, in February 1981. President Sadat ordered the roundup of more than 1500 people, including many Al-Jihad members, but missed a cell in the military led by Lieutenant Khalid Islambouli, who succeeded in assassinating