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equivalent to Jews sitting down to tea
and a cozy chat with Hitler outside the
gas chambers of Auschwitz. And even
Mrs. Sadat, who has met Arafat, knows
that, in - the past, Arafat was not fully
trustworthy: "He did not keep his word
to my husband a few times." But now,
she suggests, the times are different. The
Palestinians have finally learned, she
says, that what her husband did — rec-
ognize Israel, assure that it will have
safe, secure borders — is the only road to
peace. And, she recalls, her husband him-
self predicted that it would take the rest
of the Arab world a decade to realize the
wisdom of his ways. Now, 1989, which
marks the tenth anniversary of the Camp
David peace accords between Israel and
Egypt, the decade is up.
If nothing else, Mrs. Sadat is confident.
Confident that someone can, as her hus-
band tried, seize the day and still the war-
stirred waters of the Middle East. Confi-
dent that her husband's legacy has a vi-
tality and a profound meaning for the
world. Confident that sheer confidence —
and unwavering hope — can redeem her
region.
This confidence is apparent in Mrs.
Sadat's openness. Also apparent is the fact
that her husband was the cornerstone of
her life. Constantly, she refers to him and
his work. These references, interestingly,
are not to "Anwar," or "Mr. President," but
invariably to "Sadat," to the "deeds of
Sadat," to "all I learned from Sadat." It is
almost as if the man had not been her hus-
band, but someone whom she had re-
spected, deeply and intensely, from a
distance.
Her references to "Sadat" may well be
a way to distance herself from the pain of
his assassination. She witnessed the Oc-
tober 1981, murder which occurred while
her husband was reviewing troops on the
eighth anniversary of Egyptian troops'
crossing of the Suez Canal at the start of
the 1973 Yom Kippur War. As she wrote
in her 1987 best-seller, A Woman of
Egypt, the killing shattered her. She and
her husband "were two partners com-
plementing each other... We understood
each other completely. He was my
strength. I was his light... He saw me as
a fighter and was always proud of me.
Always his expectations are on my mind,
and when I feel I am going to lose myself
in grief or to be weak, immediately I say
to myself: Don't be like that. Sadat doesn't
want you to be that way. Anwar wants to
see you as strong as you always were.
Because of this image of him I carry
always, I have conquered my difficulties.
Even with all that I have seen."
For several years now, Mrs. Sadat has
been of two worlds, the west and the
Middle East. Spending the better part of
each year in the United States, she has
taught at the University of South Carolina,
Virginia's Radford University, and

Washington, D.C.'s American University.
Although Mrs. Sadat's formal edu-
cation includes master's and doctoral
degrees in Arabic literature, for the last
16 months she has been a senior fellow at
the University of Maryland's Center for
International Development and Conflict
Management, a think-tank devoted to
defusing tensions caused by demographic
changes, poverty, malnutrition and
regional conflicts.
There, she has two main respon-
sibilities: Presenting a series of lectures
on such topics as her husband's legacy
and on Arab women; and helping to es-
tablish the Anwar Sadat Chair in Popula-
tion, Development and Peace at the Cen-
ter.
To become a reality, the Sadat Chair
needs an endowment of $2 million. To
date, about $325,000 has been raised. The
Chair is intended to attract world-class
scholars who will teach and develop re-
search programs to aid in the quest for
peace and development in the Middle
East.
Dr. Edward Azar, director of the Cen-
ter for International Development and

"I love the American
people. Wherever I go, I
hear lovely things about
my husband."

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Conflict Management, said the Sadat
Chair will also study "how Sadat's in-
credible move to make peace happened."
Also aiding in the creation of the Chair
are Canadian Charles Bronfman, chair-
man of the Seagram Company and head
of the CRB Foundation, the world's
largest Jewish foundation; former Secre-
tary of State Henry Kissinger; former
Maryland senator Joseph Tydings; tele-
vision personality Barbara Walters; and
actor Gregory Peck.
The United States, not Egypt, will be
the site of the Sadat Chair, said Mrs.
Sadat, because "Egypt is busy with its
problems, especially its poverty. Maybe
when it gets over this period, when
people's standards will be better, they
will start thinking of something like
this."
Although Mrs. Sadat is associated with
an American university, lives in a three-
bedroom home in Great Falls, Va., and
dresses more like a western than an Arab
woman, she has great affection for her
country. Where does she feel more com-
fortable, Egypt or the United States?
"No better than home," she promptly an-
swered. "But I love the American people.
Wherever I go, I hear lovely things about
my husband. This makes my stay here
very, very pleasant. People here have

