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Anwar Sadat

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Sa⋅dat

  [suh-daht, -dat]
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–noun
An⋅war el-  [ahn-wahr el] , 1918–81, Egyptian political leader: president 1970–81; Nobel peace prize 1978.
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Sadat, Anwar [(ahn-wahr suh-daht, suh-dat)]

An Egyptian political leader of the twentieth century. He succeeded Gamal Abdel Nasser as president of Egypt on Nasser's death in 1970. In a bold effort to bring peace to the Middle East, he visited Israel in 1977 and signed a peace agreement with that country in 1979. He was assassinated in Egypt in 1981. (See Arab-Israeli conflict.)

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