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
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