Egyptian leader’s widow Jehan Sadat dies

Jehan Sadat, widow of former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the first Arab leader to make peace with Israel, died in Egypt on Friday. She was 87.

In recent weeks, Egyptian media press reported that she had been hospitalized and was battling cancer. She was buried in a military funeral ceremony on Friday.

Jehan Safwat Raouf was born in August 1933 in Cairo to an Egyptian middle-class father and a British mother. In 1949, she married Anwar Sadat, who later served as Egypt’s president until his assassination in 1981. The couple had four children.