Sam Knight on how Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, ... She joined her first protest—against the military regime of Anwar Sadat—as a high-school student, in 1972.

An example of this was related by his son, who said that after the signing of the Camp David Accords, his father said to US president Jimmy Carter and Egypt’s president Anwar Sadat he had ...

Their first son, Omar Ayaish Idris, was getting 100 marks in Standard Six maths last year. Now aged 13 and at a Catholic secondary school, he said he liked studying at his Chinese primary school.

She is credited with introducing the wives of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin — and perhaps greasing the skids for the Camp David Accords brokered by ...

The Israelis were, indeed, happy to pay, because the man who offered his services was Ashraf Marwan—Anwar Sadat’s presidential secretary and Nasser’s own son-in-law. The Yedioth Ahronoth investigation ...

In 1973, the Israelis had a highly placed human source: the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser’s son-in-law, Ashraf Marwan, who was also a close adviser to President Anwar Sadat.

On March 25, 1975, King Faisal was shot point-blank and killed by his half-brother’s son, Faisal bin Musaid, ... Anwar Sadat served as president of Egypt from 1970 to 1981.

Mr Sadat also praised the UAE's position, and that of other Arab nations, in backing Egypt during the 1973 war with Israel, which occurred when Anwar Sadat was in power. Sheikh Zayed with Anwar Sadat ...

On October 6, 1981, Anwar Sadat sat in a reviewing stand in Cairo Egypt, ... New President Hosni Mubarak led the funeral procession, taking the hand of Sadat’s son, Gamal.

Item 1 of 3 Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who was killed in a CIA drone strike in Afghanistan over the weekend according to U.S. officials, appears in an undated FBI Most Wanted poster.

22 July 1952: The eve of the day when the Free Officers, of which Anwar Sadat was one, decided to depose Egypt’s last monarch, king Farouk. Anwar and Jehan had gone to the cinema.