The Nobel Peace Prize 1978
Awarded on: 1978-10-27
"for jointly having negotiated peace between Egypt and Israel in 1978"
Mohamed Anwar al-Sadat
Born: 1918-12-25 in Mit Abu al-Kawm, Egypt
Gender: male
Field: President of Egypt from 1970 to 1981
Biography
Muhammad Anwar es-Sadat was an Egyptian politician and military officer 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 I 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.