Jehan Sadat, widow of historic Egyptian president assassinated in 1981, has died

Jehan Sadat, the widow of the assassinated Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, the first Arab leader to make peace with Israel, died Friday in Egypt, reported the state news agency MENA. I was 87 years old.

The local press had reported in recent weeks that Jehan Sadat she was in a hospital with cancer. Last year, Mrs. It’s been ages received medical treatment in the United States, but shortly after returning to Egyptian her condition deteriorated, family members reported to the local press. No further details were given about the disease.

The president’s office Abdel Fata el-Sissi mourned the passing and praised Jehan as an example for Egyptian women to follow. He awarded him a prestigious decoration and announced that a great road will bear his name.

Jehan was born in August 1933 in Cairo, of a bourgeois father and a British mother. In 1949 he married Anwar Sadat, an army officer who became president of the country from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.

(With AP information) .-

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