Jehan Sadat, widow of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the first Arab leader to reach a peace agreement with Israel, died July 9 in Egypt. She was 87. Egyptian media reported that she had been hospitalized for cancer. No further details were made available. Jehan Safwat Raouf was born in Aug. 29, 1933, in Cairo to an Egyptian middle-class father and a British mother. In 1949, at age 15, she married Anwar Sadat, a military officer who later served as Egypt’s president from 1970 until his assassination by Islamist extremists in 1981.
