Editing Anwar Sadat (section)

==Media portrayals of Anwar Sadat==
[[File:Gagarin and Nasser and Sadat in Cairo Egypt 01-02-1962.jpg|thumb|200px|[[Yuri Gagarin]] with Sadat and [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] in Cairo, 1962]]
In 1983, ''[[Sadat (film)|Sadat]]'', a miniseries based on the life of Anwar Sadat, aired on US television with [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning actor [[Louis Gossett Jr.]] in the title role. The film was promptly banned by the Egyptian government, as were all other movies produced and distributed by [[Columbia Pictures]], over allegations of historical inaccuracies. A civil lawsuit was brought by Egypt's artists' and film unions against Columbia Pictures and the film's directors, producers and scriptwriters before a court in Cairo, but was dismissed, since the alleged slanders, having taken place outside the country, fell outside the Egyptian courts' jurisdiction.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/28/movies/suit-over-film-sadat-is-dismissed-in-cairo.html | title=Suit Over Film 'Sadat' Is Dismissed in Cairo | work=[[The New York Times]] | agency=[[Reuters]] | date=March 28, 1984}}</ref>

The film was critically acclaimed in North America, but was unpopular among Egyptians and in the Egyptian press. Western authors attributed the film's poor reception in Egypt to racism – Gossett being African-American – in the Egyptian government or Egypt in general.<ref name="Bowser">Benjamin P. Bowser, ''Racism and Anti-Racism in World Perspective (Sage Series on Race and Ethnic Relations, Volume 13)'', (Sage Publications, Inc: 1995), p. 108<br />[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40F1FF63C5F0C718CDDAB0894DC484D81 Upset by 'Sadat,' Egypt Bars Columbia Films]</ref> Either way, one Western source wrote that Sadat's portrayal by Gossett "bothered race-conscious Egyptians and wouldn't have pleased [the deceased] Sadat," who identified as Egyptian and Northeast African, not black.<ref>Walter M. Ulloth, Dana Brasch, ''The Press and the State: Sociohistorical and Contemporary Studies'', ([[University Press of America]]: 1987), p. 483</ref> The two-part series earned Gossett an [[Emmy Award|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: ''[[The Days of Sadat]]'') was released in Egyptian cinemas. The movie was a major success in Egypt, and was hailed as [[Ahmed Zaki (actor)|Ahmed Zaki]]'s greatest performance to date.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/62580/ET-presents-most-prominent-works-portraying-late-President-Sadat | title=ET presents most prominent works portraying late President Sadat | first=Mustafa | last=Marie | work=[[Egypt Today]] | date=25 December 2018}}</ref>

Sadat was a recurring character on ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', played by [[Garrett Morris]], who bore a resemblance to Sadat.