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  Anwar Sadat - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Sadat born in Mit Abu Al-Kum, Al-Minufiyah, Egypt, to a poor Egyptian-Sudanese family, one of 13 brothers and sisters.
Though Sadat was protected by four layers of security, the army parade was considered safe due to ammunition-seizure rules; but the officers in charge of that procedure were on hajj to Mecca.
Sadat's bullet-riddled body was rushed to a hospital, but he was declared dead within hours, and succeeded by his Vice-President Hosni Mubarak, who was uninjured in the attack.
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/a/n/w/Anwar_Sadat_df34.html   (849 words)

  
 Anwar Sadat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Anwar Sadat Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat – &1605;&1581;&1605;&1583; &1571;&1606;&1608;&1585;&1575;&1604;&1587;&1575;&1583;&1575;&1578; Arabic - (December 25, 1918 – October 6, 1981) Egyptian politician and President from 1970 to 1981.
Sadat was born in Mit Abu al-Kum, al-Minufiyah, Egypt, one of 13 brothers and sisters.
On October 6, the month after the crackdown, Sadat was assassinated during a parade in Cairo by army members who were part of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization, who opposed his negotiations with Israel as well as his use of force in the September crackdown.
anwar-sadat.iqnaut.net   (565 words)

  
 GLOBALCOMMENT.COM - WHERE THE WORLD THINKS OUT LOUD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In 1981, Sadat was assassinated by a group of Egyptian army soldiers opposed to his peace treaty with Israel.
Jihan Sadat: I am teaching at the University of Maryland at College Park, where they are establishing a chair named after my husband for "Development and Peace," and I am also working, of course, on this chair.
Sadat, after a few days of the war, said: "I will not wage war against the Americans, since we are not on the same level militarily." Just to imagine their shock at the destruction of the Barleeve line.
www.globalcomment.com /current_affairs/article_2.asp   (2620 words)

  
 Jihan Sadat - Leading Authorities Speakers Bureau
A world figure and widow of the late Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat, Madame Jihan Sadat has been active in the women's movement both in her country and in the world.
A long time activist in social work, Jihan Sadat was among the first to reach the Suez front in 1967 to visit and comfort the wounded.
Sadat founded and/or headed are: The Egyptian Red Crescent Society; The Egyptian Blood Bank Society; The Egyptian Society for Cancer Patients; the Egyptian Society for Biomedical Engineering; The Scientific Association for Egyptian Women and The Higher Committee for Children.
www.leadingauthorities.com /4361/Jihan_Sadat.htm   (409 words)

  
 The African Diaspora Foundation - uniting globally for peace through education
Sadat Anwar - Born into a family of 13 children in 1918, Anwar al-Sadat grew up among average Egyptian villagers in the town of Mit Abul Kom 40 miles to the north of Cairo.
Sadat recontacted his old associate Nasser to find that their revolutionary movement had grown considerably while he was in prison.
Sadat openly offered the Israelis a peace treaty in exchange for the return of the Siani lands taken in the attack.
www.theadf.com /hall/sadat_anwar.htm   (1145 words)

  
 ANWAR SADAT FACTS AND INFORMATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
He made the visit after receiving an invitation from Begin and sought a permanent peace settlement (much of the Arab world was outraged by the visit, due to their widespread view of Israel as a rogue state, and a tyrannical symbol of imperialism).
In September of 1981, Sadat cracked down on Muslim organizations and Coptic organizations, including student groups; the arrests totalled nearly 1600, receiving worldwide condemnation for the extremity of his techniques.
Jihan Sadat was the 2001 recipient of the ''Pearl S. Buck Award ''.
www.loadboston.com /Anwar_Sadat   (994 words)

  
 Jihan Sadat Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Jihan Sadat (born 1933), the second wife of Anwar Sadat, pioneered for women's rights in her country.
Sadat was raised as a Moslem according to her father's wishes.
Jihan was the devoted wife of a rising political man and mother of their four children, but she was more than that.
www.bookrags.com /biography/jihan-sadat   (509 words)

  
 Anwar al-Sadat
And finally, the young Sadat admired Adolf Hitler whom the anticolonialist Sadat viewed as a potential rival to British control.
Sadat openly offered the Israelis a peace treaty in exchange for the return of the Sinai lands taken in the attack.
Sadat died at the hands of fundamentalists assassins on October 6, 1981, during a military review celebrating the Suez crossing in 1973.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/sadat.html   (1145 words)

  
 Middle East Information
Sadat's flexibility, he said later, stemmed from his solitary confinement as a political prisoner in cell 54 of Cairo
Sadat's major shifts in policy was his departure from Nasser's longstanding pro-Soviet stance.
Sadat was divorced from his first wife, who was from his native village; they had three daughters.
www.infomideast.com /info/page06.htm   (5757 words)

  
 Islam Online- News Section   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Sadat is accredited for the 1973 October war victory in which Israeli troops were taken by surprise.
Sadat's lawyer said the former leader, assassinated at the hands of Islamist hard liners in 1981, won back the remaining occupied parts of the Sinai after a U.S.-sponsored peace agreement with Israel in 1979.
Sadat, who ruled Egypt from 1970 to 1981 after the death of Nasser, was assassinated during a military parade celebrating the 1973 victory.
www.islamonline.net /english/news/2001-01/25/article4.shtml   (715 words)

  
 Camp David Day By Day
Sadat presented a detailed proposal entitled "Framework for the Comprehensive Peace...." The proposal raised every major issue and presented a hard line approach to Israel.
Although Sadat’s proposals were clearly unacceptable to Begin, Begin, to some extent forewarned by the President not to expect anything forthcoming, responded rather magnanimously, indicated that he is prepared to consider any proposal, and he hopes that the Egyptians would do the same to his proposals.
Sadat offered that he would be willing to allow the Israeli settlers to remain in the Sinai for three years and he might consider allowing Israelis to control two of the airfields in the Sinai for the same length of time.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Peace/cddays.html   (3368 words)

  
 [Islam-Online- Art & Entertainment]
A new film about Anwar Sadat, the Egyptian leader who angered Arab countries by going toIsrael to make peace, will debut later this year in what observers here say is a rehabilitation of Sadat, long thought by his fellow Arabs to be a traitor to Arab and Islamic causes.
The director, Mohammed Khan, had to resort to Sadat's wife, Jihan, to be able to shoot at her current residence, where she used to live with Sadat, as the first couple.
Sadat's legacy has proven so controversial to the point that Zaki and the film producer Mohammed Khan have been bickering over how to shoot certain scenes and how the movie in general should be treated.
www.islamonline.net /IOL-English/dowalia/art-2000-August-22/art12.asp   (622 words)

  
 Sadat Assassinated at Army Parade as Men Amid Ranks Fire Into Stands
Sadat's successor will adhere to the treaty's precepts, serious questions are bound to linger for some time, and the Government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin is certain to face rising political difficulties domestically in completing the return of Sinai to Egypt, scheduled for April 1982.
Sadat had told him many times ''that the peace between our two peoples is stronger than all its enemies and that it is not dependent on any particular personality and that it will last for a long time after the current leaders descend from the stage of history.''
Sadat's wife, Jihan, and her children, the Prime Minister concluded: ''We hope that the peace process, despite the cruel act of its enemies, will continue, as we know President Sadat would wish with all his heart.''
partners.nytimes.com /books/97/07/20/reviews/ghali-assassination.html   (991 words)

  
 Amazon.com: A Woman of Egypt: Books: Jehan Sadat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Sadat emphasizes both politics and women's issues in this story of her marriage to the man who served as Egypt's president for more than a decade.
Sadat accomplished all these things and much more while raising three children, pursuing a graduate degree in Arabic literature, and supporting her husband, president of Egypt.
Sadat is even-handed and fair in assessment of the political situations--she does not condemn her enemies just because they are her enemies.
www.amazon.com /Woman-Egypt-Jehan-Sadat/dp/0671540718   (1719 words)

  
 Jihan Sadat speaker - International Speakers Bureau
A world figure and widow of the late Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat, Madame has been active in the women's movement both in her country and in the world.
Sadat began her social activities several years before Mr.
Sadat was among the first to reach the Suez front in 1967 to visit and comfort the wounded.
www.internationalspeakers.com /speakers/ISBB-553BPV/Jihan_Sadat   (489 words)

  
 Meeting Jihan Sadat, 1991, by Jim Weingart - MemoryArchive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
As a fundraiser, the high school had scheduled Jihan Sadat, the wife of Anwar Sadat, former President of Egypt, to make a speech at the school.
The meeting between the school officials and Mrs Sadat to arrange the details for her trip and speech was set to occur in the Washington suburbs.
The principal and those with her were not familiar with the Washington area and needed someone to help with arranging the details of the meeting and getting the school representatives to the meeting.
www.memorywiki.org /en/Meeting_Jihan_Sadat,_1991,_by_Jim_Weingart   (248 words)

  
 Egypt Tales
Yet, for many reasons, such as the refusal of the United States to join the league and the necessity of a unanimous vote, the League of Nations did not succeed in maintaining world peace and security, and was dissolved with the emergence of the second world war.
Sadat desired to assure the Soviet Union, Egypt's old ally, that it would always have close ties with Egypt regardless of any changes in the authority's official representative.
During the presidency of her husband, Jihan took part in a number of charity projects.
www.siyassa.org.eg /egypttales/Months/may.html   (1449 words)

  
 Sadat
In his youth, Sadat admired the courage at facing death of a man named Zahran hanged by the British for participating in a riot in which a British officer died.
Sadat joins in with Nasser and other young officers to form a group devoted to throwing the British out of Egypt.
Sadat offers a peace treaty with the Israelis in exchange for the return of the Siani, but at first they refuse the offer.
www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/sadat.html   (566 words)

  
 Key players in $17 million vault heist sentenced to federal prison UK police arrest man for bombing that injured 39 ...
College Park, Maryland- The AP Jihan Sadat and Leah Rabin agreed that the assassinations of their husbands might have been a setback for peace in the Middle East, but that the effort will continue and cannot be stopped.
Sadat appeared Thursday at the University of Maryland in a "two women of peace" forum that was televised by Maryland Public Television.
Sadat is a senior associate at the Center for International Development and Conflict Resolution at the College Park campus.
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /archives.php?id=12228   (3566 words)

  
 Women in the Firing Line
Jihan Sadat, like most Egyptian women, was married by the age of 18.
Sadat invites a number of Egyptian women to meet me at a luncheon in her home.
Even Jihan Sadat herself, according to her friends, is being turned into a nonperson.
partners.nytimes.com /books/99/05/09/specials/friedan-firing.html   (4685 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / “Flying Coach to Cairo”
Sadat had been much on Carter’s mind; that same morning, before the call came through, he had been reading through his White House diaries on the Camp David agreements in research for the presidential memoir he was writing.
Sadat had stood defiantly in the face of their charge before being cut down by bullets and shrapnel fragments.
Representing the United States at the Sadat funeral would show the world that Nixon was indeed a legitimate former President, and it would be one more step in his long road to rehabilitation.
www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/2006/4/2006_4_60.shtml   (3860 words)

  
 Jehan Sadat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jehan Sadat speaks at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, California, on Tuesday, April 11, 2006.
Jehan Sadat (Arabic: جيهان السادات), also spelled Jihan; birth name Jehan Safwat Raouf (Arabic: جيهان صفوت رؤوف) (born August 29, 1933) was the second wife of Anwar Sadat and served as first lady of Egypt from 1970 until Sadat's assassination in 1981.
As a teenage schoolgirl she was intrigued with Anwar Sadat as a local hero through following reports in the media about his heroic stories and his courage, loyalty, and determination in resisting the British occupation of Egypt.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jihan_Sadat   (744 words)

  
 CNN - A look back at Sadat's groundbreaking journey - November 19, 1997
At the time of Sadat's visit, Israel and Egypt had fought four wars, and Israel still occupied the Sinai peninsula, part of Egypt that it has captured in the 1967 war.
Today, with the peace process stalled, there are some in Egypt who have their doubts about the value of Sadat's historic visit.
But Sadat's widow, Jihan Sadat, called Wednesday for both sides to redouble their efforts to continue what was started in Jerusalem 20 years ago.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/9711/19/egypt.sadat   (463 words)

  
 AnswerPoint Booklist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It was fasinating from the standpoint of looking at the lives of these people set back in the 1920's in Spain during the rise of Fascism.
Jihan Sadat, the second wife of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, pioneered women's rights in her country.
Jihan wrote this book with tremendous love of her husband and country.
www.answerpoint.org /reading_room/displayreviewer.asp?review=8932   (194 words)

  
 Support The Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Jihan Sadat received a Ph.D. at the age of 41, and was married to Anwar Sadat.
Jihan Sadat was the first wife of a Muslim leader to have her picture in the newspaper, to travel outside her country, and to take up public causes.
Jihan Sadat empowered women by establishing  village cooperatives for peasant women.
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Sadat, first lady of Egypt from 1970 — 1981, was the first wife of a Muslim leader to have her picture in the newspaper, to travel outside her country, and to take up public causes.
Sadat founded Egypt’s Wafa’ Wal Amal (Faith and Hope) Society for handicapped war veterans and civilians, the first and largest rehabilitation center of its kind in the Middle East.
She is a senior fellow with the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland.
www.leadingauthorities.com /Talent/S/Sadat_Jihan/Sadat_Jihan.doc   (647 words)

  
 Canadian Jewish News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Frank also cultivated many international connections, and one person who stands out for her graciousness and charm is Jihan Sadat, wife of the late Egyptian leader.
Sadat later agreed to speak at a CHW conference in Toronto and stunned everyone when she showed up to pay her respects at the shivah following the sudden death of the local president’s father.
Frank says she liked to bring an element of surprise or the unusual to anything she organized, to give members something to remember: an unscheduled celebrity at an event or a detour on an Israel mission, for example.
www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=7751   (706 words)

  
 TIME.com: Sadat in Trouble -- May 29, 1978 -- Page 1
Although his position was bolstered by the U.S. Senate action approving the sale to Egypt of 50 American-made F-5E fighter jets, Sadat is locked in a battle with opponents from both the left and the center of Egyptian politics, who challenge both his diplomacy and his domestic policies.
Now that Sadat's peace initiative has stalled, critics of his pro-American policy are starting to exploit the country's endemic problems as a way of rallying the opposition.
Among the prime targets is Osman Ahmed Osman, the millionaire contractor whose son Mahmud is married to Sadat's daughter Jihan.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,919712,00.html   (516 words)

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