The Bibliotheca Alexandrina announced, on Sunday, that it had recovered the diplomatic passport of the late Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar Sadat, more than a month after his photos were circulated through an American auction house, in preparation for selling it.
And the director of the library, Ahmed Zayed, said – in a press conference – that the Egyptian state apparatus recovered it from abroad, at a speed that exceeds any imagination".
added "Given the confidence of the Egyptian state in the Library of Alexandria, and its role in preserving the heritage of the homeland and its people, it was directed to include the recovered passport in the collection of the late president’s holdings in the library, and to display it in an appropriate museum display befitting the presidents of Egypt.".
According to a photo distributed by the library, this passport expired on March 18, 1979, before it was renewed until March 18, 1981.
The former president was assassinated on October 6, 1981, during an army parade to commemorate the October 1973 war.
The Library of Alexandria allocated an area of 260 square meters inside it for the establishment of the Sadat Museum in 2009, to include a collection of medals, medals, clothes, pictures, and personal belongings.
The library denied earlier receiving the passport offered for sale in the United States, or any other passport belonging to Sadat among the holdings handed over by the late president’s family to be placed in the museum.
