Anwar El Sadat
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| 3rd President of Egypt | |
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In office 15 October 1970 – 6 October 1981 Acting: 28 September 1970 – 15 October 1970 |
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| Vice President |
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| Preceded by | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| Succeeded by |
Sufi Abu Taleb (Acting) Hosni Mubarak |
| Prime Minister of Egypt | |
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In office 15 May 1980 – 6 October 1981 |
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| President | Himself |
| Preceded by | Mustafa Khalil |
| Succeeded by | Hosni Mubarak |
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In office 26 March 1973 – 25 September 1974 |
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| President | Himself |
| Preceded by | Aziz Sedki |
| Succeeded by | Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi |
| Vice President of Egypt | |
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In office 19 December 1969 – 14 October 1970 |
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| President | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| Preceded by | Hussein el-Shafei |
| Succeeded by | Ali Sabri |
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In office 17 February 1964 – 26 March 1964 |
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| President | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| Preceded by | Hussein el-Shafei |
| Succeeded by | Zakaria Mohieddin |
| Speaker of the National Assembly of Egypt | |
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In office 26 March 1964 – 12 November 1968 |
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| President | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| Preceded by | Abdel Latif Boghdadi |
| Succeeded by | Mohamed Labib Skokeir |
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In office 21 July 1960 – 27 September 1961 |
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| President | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| Preceded by | Abdel Latif Boghdadi |
| Succeeded by | Himself |
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| Born |
25 December 1918 Monufia, Egypt |
| Died | 6 October 1981 (aged 62) Cairo, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Political party | National Democratic Party |
| Other political affiliations |
Arab Socialist Union |
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| Children | Lubna Anwar Sadat Noha Anwar Sadat Gamal Anwar El Sadat Jehan Anwar Sadat |
| Alma mater | University of Alexandria |
| Religion | Sunni Islam |
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| Allegiance | Egypt |
| Service/branch | Egyptian Army |
| Years of service | 1938–1952 |
| Rank |
 Colonel
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 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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