Islamic Terrorism in EgyptEgypt · 1981–ongoing“The keepers of the atlas wrote this one down so the fire would not forget it.”It opens with a reviewing stand: President Sadat, assassinated by soldiers of his own parade in 1981 for making peace with Israel. From that gunfire runs a forty-year thread — the Luxor temple massacre of the nineties, the church bombings, the long duel between the militants and the security state.