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
History of Egypt under Anwar Sadat Nasserists. Sadat encouraged the emergence of an Islamist movement which had been suppressed by Nasser. Believing Islamists to be socially conservative he gave them "considerable cultural and ideological autonomy" in exchange for political support. Following the disastrous Six-Day War of 1967, Egypt waged a War of Attrition in the Suez Canal zone. In 1971, four years into this war, Sadat endorsed in a letter the peace proposals of UN negotiator Gunnar Jarring which seemed to lead to a full peace with Israel on the basis of Israel's withdrawal to its pre-war borders. This peace initiative failed as neither Israel nor