MOHAMED ANWAR EL SADAT




born Dec. 25, 1918, Mit Abū al-Kum, al-Minūfīyah governorate, Egypt died Oct. 6, 1981, Cairo

Egyptian army officer and politician who was president of Egypt from 1970 until his death. He initiated serious peace negotiations with Israel, an achievement for which he shared the 1978 Nobel Prize for Peace with Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. Under their leadership, Egypt and Israel made peace with each other in 1979.