Jehan Sadat Maryland, College Park (where The Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development has also been endowed). She also published an autobiography, "A Woman of Egypt" () in 1987, published by Simon & Schuster Inc., as well as poetry in Arabic, under a pseudonym, and has written a second book, "My Hope for Peace", released in March 2009. Jehan Sadat Jehan Sadat ( "Jihān es-Sadāt"; born 29 August 1933), a human rights activist, is the widow of Anwar Sadat, and was First Lady of Egypt from 1970 until Sadat's assassination in 1981. Jehan Sadat, also spelled Jihan, was born Jehan Safwat
History of Egypt under Anwar Sadat with Israel in hopes of regaining the Sinai peninsula and reviving a country demoralized from the 1967 war. He hoped that at least a limited victory over the Israelis would alter the status quo. In the months before the war Sadat engaged in a diplomatic offensive and by the fall of 1973 had support for a war of more than a hundred states, including most of the countries of the Arab League, Non-Aligned Movement, and Organization of African Unity. Syria agreed to join Egypt in attacking Israel. Egypt's armed forces achieved initial successes in the Crossing and advanced 15 km,