Jehan Sadat

Jehan Sadat
جيهان السادات
Jehan Sadat in 1981
First Lady of Egypt
In role
October 15, 1970 – October 6, 1981
PresidentAnwar Sadat
Preceded byTahia Abdel Nasser
Succeeded byWafeya el Otefi (acting) Suzanne Mubarak
Personal details
BornJehan Raouf Safwat
(1933-08-29)29 August 1933
Died9 July 2021(2021-07-09) (aged 87)
Spouse
(m. 1949; died 1981)
Children4
Alma materCairo University
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Jehan Sadat (Arabic: جيهان السادات, romanizedJīhān as-Sādāt, pronounced [ʒeˈhæːn es.sæˈdæːt]; née Raouf Safwat; 29 August 1933 – 9 July 2021) was an Egyptian human rights activist and the First Lady of Egypt, as the wife of Anwar Sadat, from 1970 until her husband's assassination in 1981. As Egypt's first lady, she greatly influenced the reform of the country's civil rights legislation. Advance laws, referred to as the "Jehan Laws", have given women in Egypt a range of new rights, such as the right to child support and custody in the event of divorce.