Starting over Again few days, the Egyptian authorities arrested in internment camps more than 1000 people among Jews, European and political opponents. The foreign and Jewish communities became the main target. In 1970 after Nasser’s death, Anwar Al Sadat became President of Egypt. His policy consisted in a program of open doors to the western world and to Israel. On 19 November 1977, Sadat became the first Arab leader to ever visit Israel officially meeting with Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The peace between the two countries was signed in 1979. The film took nine months of work, it has been shot directly in
Assassination of Anwar Sadat arrest of numerous opposition figures. Though Sadat still maintained high levels of popularity in Egypt, it has been said that he was assassinated "at the peak" of his unpopularity. Earlier in his presidency, Islamists had benefited from the "rectification revolution" and the release from prison of activists jailed under Nasser but Sadat's Sinai treaty with Israel enraged Islamists, particularly the radical Egyptian Islamic Jihad. According to interviews and information gathered by journalist Lawrence Wright, the group was recruiting military officers and accumulating weapons, waiting for the right moment to launch "a complete overthrow of the existing order" in Egypt. Chief