Word: abbasiyah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the army; young Sadat dreamed of wearing the pips of an officer on his shoulders. Despite a passion for movies, he got acceptable grades in secondary school after the family moved to Cairo's Kubri al Quba section. Finally he secured an appointment to the military academy at Abbasiyah, which had just begun to accept sons of the lower classes as well as the aristocratic boys it traditionally favored. Sadat quickly became friends with Cadet Gamal Abdel Nasser, his classmate. "We were young men full of hope," wrote Sadat later in his Revolt on the Nile. "We were brothers...
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