Egyptian politician Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat served from 1970 as president and shared the Nobel Prize of 1978 for peace with Menachem Begin, Israeli prime minister, for negotiations that led to a treaty of 1979; radical Islamic fundamentalists assassinated him. Menachem Begin shared the Nobel Prize for peace of 1978 with Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt. * Arabic: أنور السادات The group of free officers, overthrew the dynasty of Muhammad Ali in the revolution of 1952; this senior member, a close confidant of Gamal Abdel Nasser, succeeded on 15 October 1970. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_S...