As president, he led Egypt in the October War of 1973 to re-acquire Egyptian territory lost to Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War, making him a hero in Egypt and, for a time, the wider Arab World. Sadat was a senior member of the Free Officers group that overthrew Farouk I in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952 and a close confidant of President Gamal Abdul Nasser, whom he succeeded as President in 1970. In his eleven years as president, he changed Egypt's direction, departing from some of the economic and political principles of Nasserism by re-instituting the multi-party system and launching the Infitah economic policy. Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat (December 25 th, 1918 - October 6 th, 1981) was an Egyptian politician and the third president of Egypt serving from October 15 th, 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on October 6 th, 1981. You can help Real Life Heroes Wiki by expanding it.
