Anwar Sadat

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Assassinated by fundamentalist army officers in 1981; "In his eleven years as president, he changed Egypt's trajectory, departing from many of the political and economic tenets of Nasserism, re-instituting a multi-party system, and launching the Infitah economic policy. As President, he led Egypt in the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to regain Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had occupied since the Six-Day War of 1967, making him a hero in Egypt and, for a time, the wider Arab World. Afterwards, he engaged in negotiations with Israel, culminating in the Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty; this won him and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin the Nobel Peace Prize, making Sadat the first Muslim Nobel laureate." [Wikipedia] "But the real transformation was at the political level, in the bold decision of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat to fly to Israel and sign peace accords in 1977. This was historic for a whole number of reasons and one of the great personal acts of courage in the late twentieth century—akin, perhaps, to F. W. de Klerk’s ending of apartheid in South Africa and Gorbachev’s dismantling of the USSR." [Kennedy: Parliament of Man, Kindle Edition, Location 1468]