Anwar Sadat Quotes
Peace is much more precious than a piece of land.
Mohamed Anwar El-Sedat
Anwar Sadat, 1918-1981, President of Egypt, Nobel Peace Laureate, Speech in Cairo explaining to his people that peace was worth making compromises with Israel over land coveted by both the Israelis and the Palestinians
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Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was an Egyptian politician who served as the third President of Egypt, from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew King Farouk in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, under whom he served as Vice President twice and whom he succeeded as president in 1970. In 1978, Sadat and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, signed a peace treaty in cooperation with United States President Jimmy Carter, for which they were recognized with the Nobel Peace Prize.
