A Woman of Egypt

by JehanSadat (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1987

  $4.20

  This is an autobiography by Jehan Sadat, widow of Anwar el Sadat, tracing her early life in Cairo where she had a middle-class Egyptian upbringing, to when she was 17 and fell in love with a divorced revolutionary. She recounts how she and Anwar Sedat overcame her parents' objections to their marriage and how she was soon the wife of a rising political leader who was an intimate of President Nasser. When the President died unexpectedly, Anwar Sedat succeeded him. Thus Jehan Sedat began her life as wife of a political leader and tells of how she was the first wife of a Muslim leader to have her picture in a newspaper, to travel alone outside her own country and to take up public causes. Her courageous achievements in a world dominated by men and strict cultural traditions included reforming the divorce laws, setting up co-operatives for peasant women, nursing wounded veterans from Egypt's wars with Israel and supporting her husband who was under continuous attack. Her story concludes with the events surrounding her husband's assassination by right-wing fundamentalists.

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  Paperback
  1989

  $3.26

  In this autobiography, Jehan Sadat tells how she defied the strict Muslim traditions of her country, by marrying the man of her choice, the assassinated President Anwar Sadat, by taking up public life and travelling outside her own country and by campaigning for women's rights. As a mother of four, Jehan Sadat went back to university at age forty-one and received her PhD in October 1988.

• New

  Paperback
  1987

  $30.13