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Muhammad Anwar Al Sadat was an Egyptian military man and politician, president of his country from 1970 to 1981. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize of 1978
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He was a founding member of the Free Officers Movement with Gamal Abdel Nasser. Committed to Egyptian nationalism, he was taken prisoner by the British for being a German agent in 1942, and again (1946-9) for terrorist acts.
He participated in the 1952 coup that overthrew King Farouk and brought Nasser to power. He succeeded Nasser as president of Egypt (1970-1981). In 1972 he dismissed the Soviet mission in his country, and in 1974, after militarily losing the war of Yom Kippur (1973), he recovered, in the separation of forces, the Suez Canal from Israel.
In an effort to speed up a peace settlement in the Middle East, he visited Israel in 1977, marking Israel's first recognition of an Arab country, and generated strong condemnations from much of the Arab world. He met with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in Camp David, Maryland, United States (1978) under the auspices of then-US President Jimmy Carter, and signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979 in Washington, DC. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of neoliberalism of the 70s and 80s.
