A Woman of Egypt

In this autobiography, Jehan Sadat tells how she defied the strict Muslim traditions of her country, by marrying the man of her choice, the assassinated President Anwar Sadat, by taking up public life and travelling outside her own country and by campaigning for women's rights. As a mother of four, Jehan Sadat went back to university at age forty-one and received her PhD in October 1988.