Biography of Anwar Sadat

Anwar Sadat

Anwar El Sadat (Arabic: محمد أنور السادات‎ Muḥammad Anwar as-Sādāt  Egyptian Arabic elocution: [mæˈħæmmæd ˈʔɑnwɑɾ essæˈdæːt]; 25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his execution by fundamentalist guard officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior part of the Free Officers who toppled King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a nearby comrade of President Gamal Abdul Nasir, whom he succeeded as President in 1970.

In his eleven years as President, he adapted Egypt's trajectory, withdrawing from a number of the political, and budgetary tents of Nasserism, re-initiating a multi-party framework, and starting the Infitah monetary strategy. As President, he headed Egypt in the October War of 1973 to free Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had possessed since Six-Day War of 1967, making him a champion in Egypt and, for a period, the more extensive Arab World. Thereafter, he occupied with transactions with Israel, reaching a state of perfection in the Egypt–israel Peace Treaty. This won him the Nobel Peace Prize, additionally made him disliked around numerous Egyptians and different Arabs, and brought about Egypt suspension from the Arab League from 1979 to 1989.