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Also Known As Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat • Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat • Anwar Sādāt
Born December 25, 1918 • Egypt
Died October 6, 1981 (aged 62) • Cairo • Egypt
Title / Office president (1970-1981), Egypt
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1978)
Role In Camp David Accords • Yom Kippur War • infitāḥ

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President Jimmy Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat stand together on the White House lawn, smiling and clasping hands after signing the Israel-Egypt peace treaty.
U.S. President Jimmy Carter overseeing a discussion between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (left) and Egyptian President Anwar el-Sādāt (right) at Camp David, Maryland, September 1978.
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