Anwar Sadat
Anwar Sadat is a noted contributor to Encyclopaedia Britannica online. Read Britannica's biography of Anwar Sadat
President of Egypt (1970-1981) and contributor to the 1981 Britannica Book of the Year.
Photograph: Sahm Doherty—Time Life Picture/Getty Images
Primary Contributions (1)
Anwar Sadat was the president of Egypt from 1970 until his assassination by Muslim extremists in 1981. In the year before his death, he had a wide-ranging conversation with Frank Gibney, then the vice-chairman of the Britannica Board of Editors. The result was this article, published under Sadat’s…
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