Biography
Muhammad Anwar el-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. 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 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize.
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 Menachem Begin the Nobel Peace Prize, making Sadat the first Muslim Nobel laureate. Although 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 and the left, 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; on 6 October 1981, militants led by Khalid Islambouli opened fire on Sadat with automatic rifles during the 6 October parade in Cairo, killing him.
Filmography
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Movies 7
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TV Shows 1
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation (2021)
Mike Wallace Is Here (2019)
The Spy Who Fell to Earth (2019)
Two Meetings and a Funeral (2017)
From Tehran to Cairo (2011)
Anxiety. Thoughts of an Old Man (1984)
Madness. Reflections on the Cost of Murder (1979)
Bambi Awards (1948)
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1918-12-25
Deathday1981-10-06 (62 years old)
Birth PlaceMit Abu al-Kum, Egypt
ReligionSunni Islam
Height
RelationshipsJehan Sadat (1949-01-01 - 1981-10-06), Eqbal Madi (1940-01-01 - 1949-01-01)
ChildrenRuqayya Sadat, Jamal Sadat
FatherMohammed Sadati
MotherSitt-Al-Barrein
SiblingsAtef Sadat
CitizenshipsSultanate of Egypt, United Arab Republic, Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt, Republic of Egypt
Also Known AsMuhammad Anwar el-Sadat, Anwar as-Sadat, Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat
AwardsCollar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, Financial Times Person of the Year, Order of Ojaswi Rajanya, Order of the Star of Nepal, Order of the Republic (Tunisia), Order of the Nile, Order of Mubarak the Great, Congressional Gold Medal, Order of Abdulaziz al Saud, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Order of King Abdulaziz al Saud, Nobel Peace Prize
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