A Woman of Egypt
by Jehan Sadat
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/as new
- ISBN 10
- 0671540718
- ISBN 13
- 9780671540715
- Seller
-
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
This book is in as new condition, no wear to covers or dust jacket, no markings inner pages. Spine intact, no creases. "This is an autobiography by Jehan Sadat, widow of Anwar el Sadat, tracing her early life in Cairo where she had a middle-class Egyptian upbringing, to when she was 17 and fell in love with a divorced revolutionary. She recounts how she and Anwar Sedat overcame her parents' objections to their marriage and how she was soon the wife of a rising political leader who was an intimate of President Nasser. When the President died unexpectedly, Anwar Sedat succeeded him. Thus Jehan Sedat began her life as wife of a political leader and tells of how she was the first wife of a Muslim leader to have her picture in a newspaper, to travel alone outside her own country and to take up public causes. Her courageous achievements in a world dominated by men and strict cultural traditions included reforming the divorce laws, setting up co-operatives for peasant women, nursing wounded veterans from Egypt's wars with Israel and supporting her husband who was under continuous attack. Her story concludes with the events surrounding her husband's assassination by right-wing fundamentalists." Good Reads
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ohkwaho Books and Fine Art (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 952-2024
- Title
- A Woman of Egypt
- Author
- Jehan Sadat
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- as new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0671540718
- ISBN 13
- 9780671540715
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987
- Pages
- 478
- Size
- 24 cm x 16 cm
- Keywords
- Non-Fiction, Egypt, History, Autobiography
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