1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Anwar Sadat Centennial Celebration Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Anwar Sadat was born on December 25, 1918, in Mit Abu al-Kum, al-Minufiyah, Egypt, as 1 of 13 children in a poor Egyptian family. (2) In 1938, Sadat graduated from the Royal Military Academy in Cairo and was appointed to the Signal Corps. (3) Sadat entered the Army as a second lieutenant and was posted to Sudan where he met Gamal Abdel Nasser and fellow junior officers who became the Free Officers who led the Egyptian revolution of 1952. (4) Sadat held various high positions during Nasser’s presidency, assuming the role of President of the National Assembly in 1960 and Vice President in 1964. (5) President Nasser died of a heart attack on September 28, 1970, at which point Sadat became acting President. Sadat was subsequently elected as the third President of Egypt. (6) On October 6, 1973, President Sadat, along with his Syrian counterparts, launched an offensive against Israel. A permanent cease-fire was reached on October 25, 1973. (7) In 1974, after talks facilitated by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Egypt and Israel signed an agreement allowing Egypt to formally retrieve land in the Sinai. President Sadat later wrote in his memoirs that his meetings with Kissinger marked the beginning of a relationship of mutual understanding with the United States culminating and crystallizing in what we came to describe as a peace process . Together we started that process and the United States still supports our joint efforts to this day . (8) Months of diplomacy between Egypt and Israel followed the signing of this initial agreement and a second disengagement agreement, the Sinai Interim Agreement, was signed in September of 1975. (9) President Sadat addressed a joint session of Congress on November 5, 1975, during which he underscored the shared values between the United States and Egypt. In this speech, President Sadat addressed the path to peace, saying, We are faced, together with