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Anwar Al-Sadat

  • Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat
  • أنور السادات
Anwar Sadat cropped.jpg
3rd President of Egypt
In office
15 October 1970 – 6 October 1981
Acting: 28 September 1970 – 15 October 1970
Prime Minister
Vice President
Preceded by Gamal Abdel Nasser
Succeeded by Sufi Abu Taleb (Acting)
Hosni Mubarak
Prime Minister of Egypt
In office
15 May 1980 – 6 October 1981
President Himself
Preceded by Mustafa Khalil
Succeeded by Hosni Mubarak
In office
26 March 1973 – 25 September 1974
President Himself
Preceded by Aziz Sedki
Succeeded by Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi
Vice President of Egypt
In office
19 December 1969 – 14 October 1970
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
Preceded by Hussein el-Shafei
Succeeded by Ali Sabri
In office
17 February 1964 – 26 March 1964
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
Preceded by Hussein el-Shafei
Succeeded by Zakaria Mohieddin
Speaker of the National Assembly of Egypt
In office
26 March 1964 – 12 November 1968
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
Preceded by Abdel Latif Boghdadi
Succeeded by Mohamed Labib Skokeir
In office
21 July 1960 – 27 September 1961
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
Preceded by Abdel Latif Boghdadi
Succeeded by Himself
Personal details
Born (1918-12-25)25 December 1918
Monufia, Egypt
Died 6 October 1981(1981-10-06) (aged 62)
Cairo, Egypt
Nationality Egyptian
Political party National Democratic Party
Other political
affiliations
Arab Socialist Union
Spouse(s)
Children Lubna Anwar Sadat
Noha Anwar Sadat
Gamal Anwar El Sadat
Jehan Anwar Sadat
Alma mater University of Alexandria
Religion Sunni Islam
Signature
Military service
Allegiance Egypt
Service/branch Egyptian Army
Years of service 1938–1952
Rank Turco-Egyptian ka'im makam.gif Colonel
External audio
National Press Club Luncheon Speakers Anwar Sadat, February 6, 1978, National Press Club. Speech begins at 7:31

Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat (Arabic: محمد أنور السادات‎‎ Muḥammad Anwar as-Sādāt, Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [mæˈħæmmæd ˈʔɑnwɑɾ essæˈdæːt]; 25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as President in 1970.

In his eleven years as president, he changed Egypt's trajectory, departing from many of the political and economic tenets of Nasserism, re-instituting a multi-party system, and launching the Infitah economic policy. As President, he led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to regain Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967, making him a hero in Egypt and, for a time, the wider Arab World. Afterwards, he engaged in negotiations with Israel, culminating in the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty; this won him and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin the Nobel Peace Prize, making Sadat the first Muslim Nobel laureate. Though reaction to the treaty—which resulted in the return of Sinai to Egypt—was generally favorable among Egyptians, it was rejected by the country's Muslim Brotherhood, which felt Sadat had abandoned efforts to ensure a Palestinian state. With the exception of Sudan, the Arab world and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) strongly opposed Sadat's efforts to make a separate peace with Israel without prior consultations with the Arab states. His refusal to reconcile with them over the Palestinian issue resulted in Egypt being suspended from the Arab League from 1979 to 1989. The peace treaty was also one of the primary factors that led to his assassination.


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