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"Sadat provides an important, insistent voice for continued advancement in peace and social justice." -- "Publishers Weekly""Jehan Sadat, the widow of Anwar Sadat, is one of the great ladies of our time. Her book, "My Hope for Peace, " has both authority and solutions. Her words are more than ever relevant and necessary at this time." -- Barbara Walters"Part memoir of her husband's courageous initiative to recognize Israel's right to exist, which earned him the Nobel Peace Prize but cost him his life, part reminder that terrorism and radical fundamentalism are repudiated by the overwhelming majority of Muslims, Jehan Sadat's "My Hope for Peace" is a moving, powerful, and illuminating book." -- Dr. Henry Kissinger"The real hero of the peace agreement of 1979 between Israel and Egypt was Anwar Sadat. This book of his wife, Jehan, reminds us that Anwar's dream of regional peace is still alive." -- President Jimmy Carter

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About the Author

Jehan Sadat, Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow with the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park. A lifelong activist for women's rights, literacy, and humanitarian causes worldwide, she has received more than twenty honorary doctoral degrees and a number of prestigious international awards, including the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from the United Nations Association of San Francisco and UNICEF's Children's Champion Award. Mother of four and grandmother of eleven, she lives in Virginia and Egypt.

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Paperback: 224 pages

Publisher: Free Press (April 2, 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1416592210

ISBN-13: 978-1416592211

Product Dimensions:

6 x 0.6 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

3.8 out of 5 stars

35 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#1,506,312 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Jehan Sadat, widow of the late President Anwar Sadat of Egypt book feels like combination of timely essays and an autobiography that reads easily. The essays include impassioned well reasoned and referenced defense of Islam as a religion of peace and equality distancing Islam from violence and women subjugation. While Jehan Sadat religious belief of what Islam is, or rather her (our) versions of Islam are closely aligned, this part came across weaker than it could because of excessive generalizations. It is rather than clear that small majority or substantial minority of Egyptians doesn't share Jehan Sadat or my versions of Islam.Another essay like portion of the book covered Egyptian feminist movement and famous Egyptian feminists of the last hundred years. This was well researched and presented and only lacked those leftist feminists that suffered on the hands of Egyptian rulers. While she addressed the struggle for women suffrage, the omission of those who struggled for women suffrage in the early 1950's and were subjected to regime hostility came across as an obvious omission. Similarly, while "we" may dislike and disapprove of Islamist ideology, leaving out Egyptian women leaders who advocated Islamist policing is another glaring shortcoming, in an otherwise good essay. Needless to say, such leftist and Islamist women suffered under both presidents Nasser and Sadat.Separate from the essays, two central themes dominate the book, one is the history of President Sadat and her life as a first lady and another her life as a widow and an independent woman post his assassination. Jehan Sadat aimed to portray her late husband actions in the best possible light and primarily as a man of peace, her defense of his actions was total. While this is understandable and perhaps it would be unthinkable for her to comment negatively on the rule of her beloved husband, this part came across somewhat weak. I found it difficult that Jehan Sadat did not recognize that her late husband presided over a totalitarian police state and that many people were imprisoned and tortured during his rule. Moreover, those were not only sectarian Islamists as she claimed but also many who opposed him including leftists, liberals and Coptic Christians. Indeed Sadat took a hostile position against Sana Hassan (author of Enemy in the Promised land) who strongly advocated for peace with Israel, Hassan was the wife of an Egyptian diplomat, Tahseen Bashir, who was pressured by Sadat to divorce her.While it may help Jehan Sadat view of her husband to portray Sadat as a man of peace, who worked tirelessly for peace for decades, somehow I felt as an Egyptian American who lived the Sadat era, that Jehan Sadat wasted an opportunity at shedding more light on a man who, was clearly an Egyptian patriot, but was more about being practical and goal oriented than being a man of peace. Sadat moved quickly to achieve his goals and his actions could have been more objectively analyzed, while remaining objective. Nonetheless Jehan Sadat has many fascinating tales of President Sadat.The most enjoyable parts of the book and the parts that come across most honest and revealing are those about Jehan Sadat herself, a real pleasure to read. Jehan Sadat, did not put herself on a pedestal and tried to defend her actions, she rather allowed her fears, uncertainties, weaknesses to show. The tales of her move from Cairo to the US and her life in the US, including receiving her first pay check, her first bank account, her first time arranging her own accommodation in Washington DC are all fascinating to read. Jehan comes across a courageous and determined woman, with deep faith and lots of humanity.While, the essay and the defensiveness of Anwar Sadat have some obvious weaknesses, this does not reduce from the overall value of My Hope For Peace. Jehan Sadat, is not only a fascinating woman, she clearly is a talented writer with a gift for easy prose that flows. I highly recommend the book and I very much hope, that Jehan Sadat would write again

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A very honest book about Peace in the Middle East. Ms. Sadat continues to promote her husband's vision. With all the negative press about the Muslim religion, it is enlightening and wonderful to hear what it really stands for. The book made me feel even more positive about Muslims.

Jehan Sadat is a genuinely likable person who gives a portrayal of a different side of Islam than we would normally see in the media. In "My Hope For Peace," She represents the views of moderate Muslims who maintain their faith while still operating in the modern world and see no reason the two cannot be reconciled. That such Muslims exist is not disputed. The question remaina how much of the Islamic world is accounted for by those holding her views and how much by those who reject any outside influence.While one must admire her ideas for achieving peace in the Middle East as well as her desire for having Islam come to grips with modern ideas, there is a certain amount of wishful thinking in her outlook that overlooks the hard realities of the situation. Islam as it has developed from the late medieval period onward is not a religion that tolerates dissent, not a religion that allows other faiths an equal place in their society, and not a religion that is open to ways of thinking outside its own traditions. This was not always the case: the early period of Islamic rule was open to adopting the cultural products of conquered lands and even building upon them as the flowering of Islamic philosophy and culture in the early centuries of the second millennium A.D. attests. A struggle took place within Islam itself and the result was a closing off of such influences and a more legalistic approach that resulted in the decay of Islamic culture just as the West was in its early ascendency.A certain amount of cognitive dissonance exists in Ms. Sadat's thoughts as she, on the one hand, will vouch for the equality of women within Islam, but at the same time admit she was never allowed to shop and do other things women in the West take for granted on her own in Islamic lands. Although her ideals in "My Hope for Peace" are laudable, there needs to be a change within Islamic culture itself before they could become a reality. Unfortunately, this may mean the struggles we now see are a permanent part of the landscape.

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