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		</div><p>Jehan Sadat, widow of former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, the first Arab leader to make peace with Israel, died in Egypt aged 87.</p>
<p>In recent weeks, the Egyptian press reported that Ms Sadat had been in an Egyptian hospital and battling cancer.</p>
<p>Last year, she received medical treatment in the United States but shortly after she returned home, and her condition had deteriorated, her family told Egyptian media.</p>
<p>No further details about her illness were made available.</p>
<p>On Friday, President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi’s office said she had been a role model for Egyptian women, and granted her a national award posthumously.</p>
<p>They also announced the naming of a key road in Cairo after her.</p>
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In August 1933, Jehan Safwat Raouf was born in Cairo to an Egyptian middle-class father and a British mother.</p>
<p>In 1949, she married Anwar Sadat, a military officer at the time who later on served as Egypt’s president from 1970 until his assassination in 1981.</p>
<p>The couple had four children, daughters Noha, Gihan, Lobna and a son, Gamal.</p>
<p>Ms Sadat had consistently defended her husband’s decision to sign a peace agreement with Israel in 1979 after nearly three decades of war, a move that was controversial domestically and regionally.</p>
<p>During her husband’s tenure, Ms Sadat established herself as a staunch advocate of women’s rights by pushing for a set of laws that granted women the right to alimony and custody of children in the case of divorce.</p>
<p>She also made headlines with her volunteer work and charitable activities.</p>
<p>Her high visibility in the 1970s drew criticism from observers who accused her of exploiting her husband’s position to gain political leverage for herself.</p>
<p>In 1977, Ms Sadat graduated with a BA in Arabic literature from Cairo University.</p>
<p>In 1986, she completed her PhD in comparative literature at the same university.</p>
<p>She authored two books: her autobiography A Woman Of Egypt and My Hope For Peace, about the Arab-Israeli conflict and the rise of Islamic extremism.</p>
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