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
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