Anwar al-Sadat was the successor of Gamal Abdel-Nasser, the man who led the military coup against the Egyptian monarchy and their British allies.
He and Nasser were both leaders in a Pan-Arab movement throughout the Middle East. But al-Sadat made many enemies by rolling back socialist policies and signing a peace accord with Israel. Most have attributed his assassination in 1981 to these 2 factors.
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