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Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat (25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was an Egyptian politician and military officer who served as the third president of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981.
May 29, 2024 · Anwar Sadat, Egyptian army officer and president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination in 1981. He oversaw the October War of 1973, implemented the infitah economic program, and achieved a peace treaty with Israel, for which he shared a Nobel Prize for Peace with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
On 6 October 1981, Anwar Sadat, the 3rd President of Egypt, was assassinated during the annual victory parade held in Cairo to celebrate Operation Badr, during which the Egyptian Army had crossed the Suez Canal and taken back the Sinai Peninsula from Israel at the beginning of the Yom Kippur War. [1] .
Oct 1, 2021 · Bruce Riedel, a former CIA analyst, recounts how Sadat's assassination in 1981 led to the war in Lebanon, the rise of Hezbollah, and the birth of al-Qaida. He also compares Sadat and Mubarak's responses to Israel's invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
Apr 2, 2014 · Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian politician who served in the military before helping to overthrow his country's monarchy in the early 1950s. He served as vice...
Jan 2, 1978 · For his willingness to seize upon a fresh approach, for his display of personal and political courage, for his unshakable resolve to restore a momentum for peace in the Middle East, Anwar Sadat is...
Anwar al-Sadat was the President of Egypt who initiated and negotiated a peace treaty with Israel in 1978, after the 1967 war. He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Israel's Prime Minister Begin and was assassinated in 1981.
