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During his eleven years (1970–81) as president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat (1918–81) dramatically altered Egyptian foreign (and domestic) policy.
Even though the revolutionary project failed, the assassination of Sadat had a major impact on the history of the Middle East: the Arab-Israeli.
In the early days o f the revolution, the only revolutionary leader known to the public was Anwar el-Sadat, the "hero” o f the Amin Osman case.

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ANWAR SADAT

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Anwar Sadat was born in 1918 in Egypt and graduated from the Cairo military academy. He plotted with Germans to expel the British from Egypt during World War II and was jailed in 1942 but escaped two years later. Sadat became president of Egypt in 1970 and launched the 1973 Arab-Israeli war to retake the Sinai peninsula from Israel. After the war, he negotiated peace agreements between Egypt and Israel at the 1978 Camp David Accords. Sadat was assassinated by Islamic extremists in 1981 at a victory parade in Cairo.

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Continues from T79:0074. Part two of two. This program features coverage of the Dec. 10, 1978, Nobel Prize ceremonies from Stockholm. Brief film biographies of the winners are interspersed with the presentations continues with the award to Isaac Bashevis Singer of the U.S. for literature. Herbert A. Simon of the U.S. receives the award for economics. The ceremonies switch to Oslo for presentation of the Peace Prize to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and a representative of prizewinner President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. The biographies of Begin and Sadat include interviews and coverage of Camp David 1978 and Sadat in Israel.

NETWORK: PBS
DATE: December 12, 1978 Tuesday 10:00 PM
RUNNING TIME: 0:30:00
COLOR/B&W: Color
CATALOG ID: T79:0075
GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries; Award presentations
SUBJECT HEADING: Nobel Prizes - 1978; Biography; Peace - Awards and prizes; Literature - Awards and prizes; Economics - Awards and prizes; Israel-Arab border conflicts, 1949-; Israel - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Egypt - Off
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·        Mordechai Bar-On, Moshe Dayan: Israel's Controversial Hero, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2012.
·        Ezer Weizmann, The Battle for Peace, Toronto, Bantam Books, 1981
·        Nahum Goldmann, The Autobiography of Na