Interview with President Sadat | Egyptian President | Egypt | This Week | 1977

'This Week' Speaks to Egyptian President - Anwar Sadat about his on new economic policy, an “open-door” policy designed to attract foreign investors and build up a prosperous middle-class. He is
introducing what he describes as “my democracy”. He is confident of achieving “economic take-off”, and is unconcerned by suggestions that he is breeding uncontrollable tensions by encouraging untrammeled, capitalism. The recent rioters against raised food prices are “riff.-raff”. Criticism of rich men’s extravagance is “Marxist hatred”.
Given Egypts economic, plight, and Sadat’s reliance on foreign capital for revival, it is easy to understand the pressure ‘for peace, the necessity for peace. Yet economic revival seems so distant and the tensions implicit in Sadat’s chosen course so dangerous, that it is just as easy to see how peace could fail to provide an answer to Egypt’s problems, and war be once again the attractive option.
First shown: 09/06/1977
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[@mohamedAhmed-mq7ne]

God bless him

[@norahassn9222]

@sinem poyraz fuck u

[@peace__777]

@@norahassn9222 Interesting how The People's Republic of KZbin allows some users to post profanity, but not others 🤔.......

[@pharaohdaking994]

Amen he was a great man 🇪🇬🇪🇬🌞

[@pharaohdaking994]

@@peace__777 lol 😂 u mad ?

[@hairybatemanballs9573]

@@pharaohdaking994he go to hell

[@kabeyz]

Cet homme était très intelligent. Trop en avance sur son temps malheureusement

[@noahtavlin]

"The if's and but's over the future of Egypt are almost overwhelming. If there's peace in the middle east; if the foreigners invest; and if, as a consequence, the economy recovers; and if then, the houses are built; and if the fear of hunger is banished; and if the poor, as well as the rich, prosper. If. And if not? The closer you look at Egypt the more tempted you are to predict an upheaval that would ricochet across the Middle East and further beyond." Arab Spring started in Tunisia, but he was basically correct.

[@bode3186]

fantastic report it involve everything in egypt at this era

[@mdphdmfm]

The world was less complicatedMay God have mercy on Sadat's soul!

[@ibrahimorocco]

This very scumbag, aka Sadat, played a major dirty role in turning the world into a f*cked up place for ages to come.

[@amrelsherbini5020]

@@ibrahimorocco lol, you are pathetic

[@Yasser.Osman.A.Z.]

@@ibrahimorocco you are sb. You are hypocrite as always. Muslim brotherhood are in a coalition Government inside Israel, this is how much hypocrites you are

[@supra1722]

Sadat was down to collaborate with the brotherhood traitors when it came to his attempts to sideline and harass Nasserists.

[@wilhelmhesse1348]

Ultimately he tried under difficult circumstances, he tried his best but was killed for his failure be it due to matters beyond his control or otherwise. An excellent report and analysis. Alot of what was said came out to happen.

[@ahmedaly4397]

This era 1970es of Egypt economy & political situation is very similar to USSR in the late 80es & 90es, the transition from socialism to capitalism , it is a transition era which effected the people & their way of life.

[@strangelove9916]

I think it’s poorer and definitely more backwards than that, I know you want to hear differently as a 🐪 but facts are facts

[@monjiaitaly]

If Sisi had half a brain he would allow Egyptians to build business and make it easy for them and foreign businesses to invest in Egypt using Egyptian workers. People must have work and hope for the future.

[@mr.skarkasm7755]

Apparently he had half a brain and did that already, sadly after this covid bs we will have to rebuild all the foreign investment stuff.

[@ishfaqakram8260]

Clever man

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

16:00 -“...Riff raff” - “ There were scores of people that got killed in January...” - “ Yes, riff raff” - “ You talk about riff raff...” - “Riff raff!” Lmao!😂

[@charlesbukowski9836]

Sadat was straight up lololol based

[@mohamedfahad2364]

Then he got riff raffed lmao

[@zombieat]

the 70s especially 1979 was the worst decade in egypt's history in terms of gdp per capita ranking. but it wasn't sadat's fault, without him egypt would have been worse off. it was because marxisim; egypt's 11 consecutive wars, revolutions and foreign interventions culminating in 1977 against gaddafi and the arab sanctions against egypt finally took their toll on egypt in the 70s.

[@DonCarlosHormozi]

Unfortunately, I've never visited Egypt I'd love to. Has the economic situation improved?

[@ariaslamb7789]

worse than ever

[@zombieat]

@@ariaslamb7789 in 2022 egypt is ranked 17 places higher in gdp per capita than it was in 1977 when this docu was made. so i'd say the economic situation did improve. not as good as the 60s but not as bad as the 70s when this docu was made.

[@ariaslamb7789]

​@@zombieat You do not live in Egypt The egg was 1 pound Then it became 2 pounds and now it is 3 pounds Literally everything has doubled its price We are still at the beginning of the crisis In addition to many other problems that make life a survival crisis The employee's salary is 3000, but this is with the government Millions work in the private sector, myself included The average private sector salary is 2000

[@zombieat]

@@ariaslamb7789 i'm just looking at egypt's gdp per capita rank and 2022 is better than 2021 but not as good as 1990. other factors affect salaries in egypt like the fact that it took in 655,000 immigrants in a year of historically high global inflation.

[@ariaslamb7789]

@@zombieat Maybe the GDP is going down lol

[@duckbizniz663]

Excellent report by Thames TV on Egypt and Anwar Sadat. President Sadat is committed to lead Egypt in a different direction from Nasser's Socialist path. It is ironic that a British reporting team is doing this report. How was the modern world created that led to the higher standard of living for everyone in the developed Western World. It started in Western Europe with Great Britain, Netherland, Belgium, France, and Germany. It also includes Europe's colonial descendants like the US and Canada. In Europe from the late 1600s to early 1900s we see a dramatic change in the way people live. The development of machines and new ways to become more productive. Overall it was the Enlightenment that drove the Industrial Revolution and Agricultural Revolution which made material goods readily available to everyone albeit more so with some than others. From the 1800s to the early 1900s we see this dramatic transformation from an agrarian based society that had existed since the dawn of civilization to an industrialized society of the present day. When we look at the societies of today we see impoverished, third-world countries entrenched in the agrarian stage of development and the modern, industrialized societies with a higher standard of living. Is Britain a modern, industrialized country with a high standard of living seen throughout Western Europe? Is Egypt a modern, industrialized country or an agrarian society? Egypt has some modern conveniences that look like industrialization, but these things are imported from industrialized nations. Do you see tiny donkeys pulling overloaded wooden wagons alongside Fiats, Volkswagen, and General Motor vehicles on Egyptian roads? That is Egypt. One of the earliest societies to use agriculture to build the Great Pyramids on the Giza Plateau. Pharaonic Egypt used agriculture to achieve one of the earliest great civilizations. Now contemporary Egypt is trying to struggle out of the restrictions of agrarianism. Agriculture was a great human achievement 4700 years ago. Today industrialized societies have accelerated well beyond agrarian societies. The poverty of third world countries is due to the limitations of agrarianism. Egyptain Marxists claim that capitalists have stolen Egypt's wealth. Is that true? What is wealth? Wealth is money and money is an instrument of trade. Capitalists have made things that improve the lives of other people. As a result many people want to trade for that thing and capitalists accumulate money, the instrument of trade. Trade raises the standard of living. Industrialization amplifies trade and in turn raises the standard of living. What has enabled a handful of truly industrialized countries to achieve a higher of standard of living is due to the social evolution along with industrial development. In England we see in the mid-1600s the defeat of the absolute power of Monarch by Parliament along with the Glorious Revolution, and many other events that diluted the absolute power of rulers. The decentralization of political power and the need to get things done requires consensus. A consensus based on reason and logic of the European Enlightenment, and not habit nor tradition. The acceptance that trade must be fostered by social rules or laws led to the rule of law in a handful of Western European societies. The ideas of free-market capitalism, liberalism, and respect for private property enabled a few individuals with good (technical) ideas to create machines that vastly accelerated productivity. This increase in productivity allowed people with lower incomes to obtain material goods that raised their standard of living. The successful development of a handful of industrialized Western societies required the evolution of the entire society (political, legal, technical) over a 400-500 years period. The under-developed societies of today must undergo an evolution of their entire society. The successful establishment of a democratic republican form of governance is arduous but must be undertaken. It took Western Europe 4-5 centuries to achieve modernization. It will involve no less from other parts of the world. The dictatorship of Socialism-Communism allows for the seizure of private property. This is the same as the seizure of private property by Kings. In agrarian societies everyone must find new ways to make a living. The use of animal muscle power will not improve productivity. It was successful during the age of the Pharaohs. In the modern industrialized age it will only succeed in poverty.

[@jc6594]

Today Commemorates Anwar el-Sadat's 100th Birthday~

[@anwarnesbitt5636]

Wow I have the same name as a famous leader

[@errolkim1334]

Who? Rab C?

[@alexm566]

Were you named after him?

[@annetteprice7805]

Who is the interviewer

[@amun1040]

Ian Leslie

[@Scalihoo]

11:44 . So that's where my yellow 1970 Dodge Challenger went 🧐🧐. . . ☺️☺️

[@mohamedfadel2003]

رحمك الله ايها البطل

[@FuckJewTube664]

Same shit in 2019

[@benalexender3046]

Lol , yes agree with you, same shit different time يا معلم

[@MIMI-jk3hr]

Attwa Garwoa it’s way way worse now. A lot of the same shit but Sadat days money was coming in.

[@Exzell0Racing]

Rest in piece

[@Yasser.Osman.A.Z.]

رحم الله الشهيد محمد أنور السادات. قتله من يدعون الحرية و السلام الان، للاسف تركيا و قطر اصبحوا ملاذ للمطاردين من العدالة حول العالم. الله يرحمه مرسي كان بيقعد و يلم قتلة السادات حوله بكل فخر. و لكن احنا شعب بينسي بسرعة للاسف

[@kabeyz]

@15:05 😍

[@errolkim1334]

She's beautiful.

[@errolkim1334]

RIFF RAFF

[@militarycomparisons]

sadat 1973 the war king💪

[@errolkim1334]

Sparking up and putting them down as riff raff zero fucks given for Dumblebee

[@marshallart356]

Incredible how arrogant this is, it's obvious nowadays. Especially an ongoing criticism by the British, a nation that held Egypt for decades as a slave. Shame

[@amrelsherbini5020]

Lol

[@milkman5676]

How is it arrogant exactly?

[@strangelove9916]

Don’t be a 🐫 lover

[@errolkim1334]

Those very small elements..... 🤣🤣

[@seanabbas7053]

17:29

[@feelingrealsurreal]

Sean Abbas damn

[@antoinejohnson9944]

Thé Greatest Africa Leaders Would End North Africa Cities ,Township, And Infrastructures Développement For A Island Nation Name MADAGASCAR !

[@carljohnson317]

📢

[@errolkim1334]

Riff Raff But............ Riff Raff. Excuse me....... Riff Raff.

[@kingsadat6601]

Anyone from sadat family in USA? I am his relative fighting an insurance that nearly about to cause me to be killed

[@MohamedHassan-qi4lk]

Layla is cute

[@Mauser_.]

Ridiculous exaggerations here. Someone spends on a night out what a laborer makes in 10 years? Yeah, right.

[@zombieat]

i get a feeling that the reporter was socialist.

[@monjiaitaly]

No peoples should live like this, especially Egyptians, one of the greatest civilizations in the world. Now the military is just leverage to stay in power.

[@mr.skarkasm7755]

Great to see another sheep lol

[@monjiaitaly]

@@mr.skarkasm7755 Who is the sheep? and why?

[@mr.skarkasm7755]

@@monjiaitaly thinking that we egyptians (Right Now) are living poorly lol

[@monjiaitaly]

@@mr.skarkasm7755 I never said all Egyptians are living poorly right now. I have been there in Cairo.

[@mr.skarkasm7755]

@@monjiaitaly 6 years ago you would have been right.

[@mohamedosman6839]

look what Egyptians got now damm shitt Elsisi

[@Yasser.Osman.A.Z.]

Sisi is a fine man. Mind your country, if you have one

[@strangelove9916]

You are right he’s shitt my good 🐪

[@45652355]

@@Yasser.Osman.A.Z. not he is not fine, and soon to be thrown to history's trash bin and so is ur biased piece o shiit thinking

[@zombieat]

@@45652355 he is the best president in egypt's modern history.

[@dan-1617]

same backwardness continues there

[@errolkim1334]

paid....................by.....................QADDAFFI!!MWAHHAHAHA!!

[@bdot187um]

😂🤦🏻‍♂️

[@Nobody-yt9gz]

@@bdot187um Yes paid by QADDAFFI because he was attacking my country during my leader Sadat's era What r u laughing at ??

[@bdot187um]

@@Nobody-yt9gz i just loved the way he said it and pinned all that shit on qaddaffi like he didn't have internal opposition before any outside actors stepped in.

[@errolkim1334]

@@Nobody-yt9gz his anger

[@errolkim1334]

@@bdot187um exactly, the way he said it

[@timothygeorge1191]

USA 🇺🇸 gives $1.6 billion in Aid every year to Egypt 🇪🇬

[@theduke6174]

in support of America's trade route

[@Sam-ue4rv]

That's loose change

[@amrelsherbini5020]

Do you think that comes for free? xD

[@errolkim1334]

Oh I think Donald might fix that

[@amrelsherbini5020]

@@errolkim1334 LOL, so naive, I'll make it simple, Mutual benefits.

[@lmontader0rderlmontadar0rd95]

انا المهدي المنتظر المنتقم والقائد الاعلى كلمتي الان حول مصر لم تكن ازمتها مالية من عهد انور السادات كانت ازمتها علمية وشعب يهوى الخناق ويبحث على الحرية من منعك في انجاز اكبر الشوارع اي الشعب هو من صنع الأزمة مثل المغرب لن تجد بيت حمام دون ضيق كما لن تجد ادراج دون ضيق بخلاف سكان ريف تجد الادراج اوسع من ادراج الفيلات في الدارالبيضاء انظر صورة مصر في عهد انور السادات مازال حتى الان بل الأزمة اكثر حقيقة كنت صادقا لما نشرت كنت اتجنب المصريين في امريكا وكندا كثرة الكلام ولن تستفيذ شيء وحرر البيان من الصحراء الغربية

[@Nobody-yt9gz]

أنا مصري و بقولك خلليك مع التخاريف بتاعتك لإنك منتاش عارف السادات عمل إيه علشان تتكلم عنه كإنك عارف كل حاجه

[@alimoham8d]

و لا انت ولا غلام أحمد ولا اي حد ظهر قبل كدا كان المهدي المهدي يظهر في وقت ظهور الدجال و نهاية العالم ولم يحدث هذا رجاء عدم خدع الناس بسبب جهلهم الديني

[@almirante_kiko]

Wait Egyptians weren't white 🤔🤔

[@mohamedfahad2364]

The traitor

[@user-cr4cv5gv7r]

I heard an insect .👂🏼👆

[@IntergalacticOutlaw]

I am by dna related to Ramses and I am also east and west african. I always did not like Anwar because I feel like he loved Arabs but he shafted the people of Aswan. I am conflicted because he was a strong African & Arab leader, but he also had many bad qualities to his own people I believe he was half Nubian. I wish he loved Africa were he was as much as he loved the Middle East. If a tree does not love its roots then what is it? If a man does not respect his father can he be a man? We should love our mother and our father. Heaven is at our mothers feet and especially for us men we will eventually become some aspect of ourselves with our fathers in us.

[@shounakbanerjee8904]

How did you know that you were related to Rameses lol?

[@IntergalacticOutlaw]

@@shounakbanerjee8904 23&me

[@abdelrahmanali7396]

Egyptians now are muslim arabs and muslims should look for each other first and then look for the others. All of us liked him because of that

[@mohamedtahoun2148]

dont look to the past like nowdays , there is no racist at egypt at these time , and he act like egyptian muslim man not as black or white man

[@IntergalacticOutlaw]

@@mohamedtahoun2148 they're arab bro. Black, white, Bedouin, and a mix of groups. I think there is racism everywhere but most people I know from North Africa are not racist

[@levdavid2412]

16:00 In his inadequacy in the face of insurmountable economic challenges Sadat lashes out at scapegoats, like Gaddafi, communists, nasserists.

[@supra1722]

those scapegoats were actually committed to the well-being of the common masses living in poverty as opposed to boosting GDP figures alone by attracting foreign investment.

[@MirceaBv]

Gaddafi got killed by his own socialism :)

[@zombieat]

Gaddafi organised a group of civilians to march from Libya to Cairo, the Egyptian capital, to protest Sadat's policy towards Israel in the hopes that they would be well received by the population. After Egyptian border guards halted the demonstration at the frontier, Gaddafi ordered his forces to raid the Egyptian town of Sallum.