The family of the late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has called on authorities to investigate the sale of the leader's passport at a US auction house, arguing that the travel document is part of the nation's heritage
Many have wondered how the passport made its way to the auction house.
Sadat said that, as far as he knows, the president's wife handed her husband's belongings to the Library of Alexandria in northern Egypt after he died. But Ahmed Zayed, the library's director, told the same talk show host on Saturday that the passport was not among the belongings.Details of the passport's new owner were not disclosed on the auction page.
Issued March 19, 1974, the travel document has forty-eight pages and is unsigned, according to Heritage Auctions. It was valid until March 18, 1981 and has one stamped visa from 1974.A former Egyptian army officer, Anwar Sadat was president from 1970 until his assassination in October 1981. For many Egyptians, Sadat is a symbol of their country's fight for independence.
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