A quarter-century after Anwar Sadat's historic trip of peace to Jerusalem, NPR's Bob Edwards examines the late Egyptian leader's legacy. Hear Sadat's 1977 speech to the Israeli parliament at NPR ...

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Forty years later, Mohamed Anwar Sadat, a nephew of the former Egyptian leader, remembers his uncle’s legacy as a courageous leader who was willing to take brave steps to forge peace.

Egyptians have hardly noticed as the 30th anniversary of Anwar Sadat’s death approached this week. It isn’t only because they’re too busy with ongoing political protests and labor strikes as ...

Mohammed Anwar Sadat did not come to power as a man of peace but he will be remembered as a peacemaker.

On Oct. 6, 1981, assassins posing as soldiers opened fire on Egyptian President Anwar Sadat as he watched a military victory parade to mark Egypt’s 1973 war with Israel. The assassination ...

The risks Anwar Sadat later took for peace overshadowed his risks in war. In 1977, defying the wrath of most of his fellow Arabs he did the unthinkable and traveled to Jerusalem, the heart of his ...

Spending a recent week in Egypt made me realize what is desperately missing from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: a peacemaker in the mold of Anwar Sadat.

An Islamic militant leader who helped plot the 1981 assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat but later expressed regret has been released after nearly 22 years of a life sentence, police ...

Almost 20 years after his assassination, former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is being reappraised.

Wherever you look in this world in flames, you are struck by how desperately it needs a man like Anwar Sadat. The world does not need a man like Sadat because of his famously chic style, the ...