Egyptian politician Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat served from 1970 as president and shared the Nobel Prize of 1978 for peace with Menachem Begin, Israeli prime minister, for negotiations that led to a treaty of 1979; radical Islamic fundamentalists assassinated him.
Menachem Begin shared the Nobel Prize for peace of 1978 with Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt.
The group of free officers, overthrew the dynasty of Muhammad Ali in the revolution of 1952; this senior member, a close confidant of Gamal Abdel Nasser, succeeded on 15 October 1970.
طوال عمر السادات وهو داهية استطاع ان يثتثمر ذكائه مع كل الانظمة ومن النادرين الذين استطاعوا البقاء بجوار عبد الناصر بدون ان يتم ازاحتهم .... طبعا كتاب ملئ بالنفاق السياسى ومحاولة رسم صورة مثالية لحركة الظباط