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.
Anwar Sadat were turned from bitter enemies into fast friends. The relationship between Cairo and Tehran became so friendly that the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, called Sadat his "dear brother". After the 1973 war with Israel, Iran assumed a leading role in cleaning up and reactivating the blocked Suez Canal with heavy investment. The country also facilitated the withdrawal of Israel from the occupied Sinai Peninsula by promising to substitute the loss of the oil to the Israelis with free Iranian oil if they withdrew from the Egyptian oil wells in western Sinai. All these added more to the personal