TWENTY years after his violent death at the hands of Islamic extremists for making peace with Israel, former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s life is being revived on cinema screens across the country. “The Days of Sadat,” which follows his evolution from revolutionary to president of the republic, opens this week to Egyptian audiences who five years ago flocked to watch 100 days in the life of his predecessor Gamal Abdel Nasser on film with the same actor in the title role. Posters of actor and co-producer Ahmed Zaki bearing Sadat’s trademark pipe and moustache are being plastered over Cairo and look set to stay there until the 20th anniversary of Sadat’s death on October 6. Sadat was assassinated in 1981 by army soldiers and Islamic militant Khaled al-Islambuli during a military parade, just four years after his historic visit to Jerusalem and two years after signing the first peace treaty between an Arab state and Israel. -AFP