ABSTRACT
In the beginning of Anwar Sadat's incredible leadership, he was the most charming and humorous of men. In those dark days, Egyptians repeated, as though it were a mantra, that Sadat had failed and that everything he had stood for had died along with him. Regionally, almost all the Arab states have also moderated politically and psychologically and accepted Sadat’s once-suspect vision of the future. Because of Sadat, it is the Arabs–effectively, all the Arab states except for a few radicals like Syria–who don’t want to live by war and conflict anymore. Because of Sadat, the new paradigm is the countries that work vs. the countries that don’t work, and one of evolutionary gradual cultural renewal in place of revolutionary overnight “salvation.” Sadat came to power, he saw the true reality, he acted with a courage rare in any man, and he is judged by history as having been right.
